A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'chanters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chantersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 4
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 chanters in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Blaw the dust affa yer chanters ?? https://t.co/aZPnoFBgOl (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
t Is glorious and unsettling. Chanters being warmed up: "Crooooooo!" on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
whaur's their chanters on page 2

3 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
bein droont oot by strings an chanters, but in the end they bear the on page 77

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
is safe eneugh glossin wi wur chanters kicked in as ‘with our wind
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
a in 1972 whaur sindry Slovak chanters in sindry pairts o the ceetie
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
c an fasson o later groups an chanters, whuther Kula Shaker i the 19
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