| colloquial | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 4.3 | 14 | 6 |
| ORK - Orkney | |||
| SHD - Shetland | |||
| TON - Tonge | |||
| NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | |||
| NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
| MNA - Mid Northern A | |||
| 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 | |||
| AYR - Ayrshire | |||
| LAL - General Central | 15.9 | 12 | 4 |
| SEA - South East (Borders) | 12.5 | 1 | 1 |
| SWE - South West (Galloway) | |||
| DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) | |||
| WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) | 163.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 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) |
Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
blad ad hoc frae leeterary or colloquial styles whaniver the needcessi
a’) siccan maks pits ower a colloquial register – ane at’s obvio
slang. But hale langages haes colloquial an slang registers as weel as
lly” micht be juist as guid colloquial Scots as ‘I don’t wanna w
e’s farm no more’ is guid colloquial American, but nane o thaim is
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
like. Auld farrant an recent colloquial Scots baith haes thair place,
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Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ture ayont the couthie an the colloquial. Aifter aw, naebodie can norm
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
yin: this ane’s a bit mair colloquial, but aye neutral eneuch. A pr
wan: maist colloquial o aw, and wi a strang central
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
il) can mean ‘penis’ in a colloquial context; which is pleyed on,
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