Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'centred'

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Use in varieties of Scots

centred	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.2	14	11
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central	45.9	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	12.4	2	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	3
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)	58.1	1	1
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 centred in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
anna believe I wis sic a self centred bitch at I cut aff my lovely on page 49

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
His project wis centred roon place-names. The braes,
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(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
raordinarily personal and ego-centred, nor duis the term 'puritan' on page 95
an ancien Kirk and university-centred ane, polemicised agin an auld on page 96

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
thers, or pathologically self-centred careerne ig May an Johnson di on page 54

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Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
heids, reid-centred, like clover, which dragged on page 112

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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Self-centred devotion, motivatin’ your d
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Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
t an within. The hoose wis aw centred on ma mither, an that wis the on page 23

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General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
’t. That implies a ‘Yirth-centred ’ veision o life an makin la
ferr thai ir in wi a ‘Yirth-centred ’ philosophie or no. The Gai
ti sairve certain objectives, centred on human acks, an ti apen the
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
in the North East o Scotland (centred on Aiberdeen) an pairts o the
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Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ailues as bein singularly sel-centred .
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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Dickey, William Yarns 3 - Annual General Report, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, prose
when he directed three films centred roon the lives and loves in a
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