A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'collected'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
collectedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51513
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 collected in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
till find quite a beeg crowd collected roond id: air wis a dispute g on page 82
sort o idea at they mosst be collected at wance an pit back intill e on page 112

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a big handfae o coins they'd collected atween themsels tae thank him
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
air Scots words - these were collected fae teachers at ma schuil. On (2020) twitter link
e month: whazzlin = wheezing. Collected a file back fae a Banff bairn (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
ideDon @Ali_Leith A wis fin a collected siller(2020)

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
in can be gained bi readin a 'Collected Poems' as gin it wes a novel, on page 95

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
rat intil Robb’s awn ‘The Collected Poems of Alexander Scott’,
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
nlon’s awready been roon an collected the dough. Nae fuckin greetin
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
Mr. MacNeil ordered a stop an collected the papers. He sat at his des on page 42

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
rable resemblance to the snot collected at a dirty child’s nose.’
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
Aitken, ed Caroline Macafee, Collected Writings on the Scots Languag
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
I poured masel intae all the collected, described, classified wee st (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
100 Collected Poems o Robert Burns owerset on page 48

1 matches

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