A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'citizen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
citizenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3119
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 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of citizen in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
then the decent an upstannin citizen at ye are." on page 24

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
osperity and welfare of every citizen'. In whit universe cuid shift on page 24
ncy an concern fer yer fellae citizen trumps the greed o the specul on page 96

2 matches

General Central

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
overnment's consultation hub, Citizen Space. Fin an gie yer repone
e for tae gie yer repones via Citizen Space, please fill oot an sen
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lso an ex-chair o the Glasgow Citizen’s Theatre. Whitivver the re
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
is profit on the back o ilka citizen forbye that the majiggie disn(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
unieDonna Aye a luv bein a EU citizen an I wid luv aw folk in Scotl(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
eps like me as a second class citizen or worse! full o gobshite and(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Dickey, William Yarns 3 - Annual General Report, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, prose
only did their use o illegal Citizen Band wirelesses interfere wi
1 matches

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
ion o the Rifles - the Young Citizen Volunteers.
1 matches

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