A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'category'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
categoryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12317
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 category in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
a bein assigned tae a certain category o language. An whaar Shaetlan
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
val 2003 Senior Doric Writing Category on page 33
val 2004 Sentor Doric Writing Category on page 69

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
val 2008 Senior Doric Writing Category on page 19
val 2011 Senior Doric Writing Category on page 34
val 2009 Senior Doric Writing Category on page 89

3 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
formula you're placed intae a category. Maist people faw intae yin a on page 122
ub as he's part ae the hidden category "Fuckin nutjobs". No a single on page 123

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
cht solution is tae lift what category a wird belangs afore ye decid
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
nd unner the follaein subjeck category (Scots/ language learning/ fo
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
but obviously thir wisnae a category fur me. Ma da thinks ah'm bei on page 67

1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
or climbers. It’s tae this category ah masel belang. Oor interact
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
re, pal, Do you fit into that category?' on page 59

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
guys and sort folk intae wan category or the other. We don't like t on page 21

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
nately I don't faw in'ae that category. The coffee, directionless, a on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in the fuckin sexual deviant category. Just somethin aboot the lech
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ere is but ane winner in ilka category. That is deavesome tae aabody on page 8
In the owersettin category I hae read monie thochtie ett on page 9

2 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 71 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Second Life). Stravaigin this
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
plays wad hae come intil the category that he describes thus: ‘An
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
category.
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
e, we also did a book haul at Category Is Books when bairn was a cou(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
Doric Film Festival (schools category) - Meethill Primary school i (2019) twitter link

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