A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'chaunces'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chauncesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 chaunces in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
* Provide larnin chaunces in Doric that are enjoyable a
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
kin on his faither, an on his chaunces o winnin the fecht.
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
had set him. He ainly had twa chaunces left tae dae him in. on page 45

1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
up tae the vote wis loadit wi chaunces tae be ragin, tae be elatit,
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
their pleesuir spiled wi the chaunces they tak, e'en gif they on page 111

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
romaunces, chaunces, on page 27

1 matches

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