A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cargo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cargoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cargo in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ingling through trade an the 'cargo baith wyes' trips o the fishe (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
‘84? Chinos can get tae and cargo pants hidnae been invented ?? (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ere ah'll hauf in wi yi fur a cargo. on page 169

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
maist o them wi a pretty guid cargo. As they cam dreeblin in the on page 34

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
eet somewhere tryin tae git a cargo sorted after their day ae dog on page 38
i wur a gimp; it means a free cargo fur them n a sore face fur yo on page 40

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
pair ay three-quarter length cargo troosers, boatin shoes an a b
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he Indies athoot its wretched cargo o human misery.' on page 31

1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
oor cargo, Scots coal an Irish lime - on page 55

1 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
pplyit tae a pairt o a ship's cargo awnit an investit in by saive on page 59

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
wi a cargo o colanders met trading vesse on page 11

1 matches

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