A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'churchill'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
churchillOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9165
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 27.9 11 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 churchill in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
The MI5 man nodded. “Churchill wanted them to set Europe abl
1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
tae mention ‘ thon bastert Churchill.’ Mind, awb’dy cried him
b’dy cried him thon bastert Churchill. Aw barrin Wullie’s mum, wh
wha cried him ‘thon piggin Churchill.’ It hid aw adae wi Twintyw
ieb’dy ivver sayed the wird Churchill athoot pittin ‘thon bastert
thon wis wan mankie wird – Churchill. Wullie’s Graundfaither hid
11 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
the bold signature, 'Winston Churchill'. on page 88

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Scrymgeour that beat Winston Churchill for the Parliamentary seat o on page 21

2 matches

General Central

@bigandymccoll tweeted
sonUK That is ABSOLUTELY what Churchill thought on 31st January 1919 (2022) twitter link