A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'comics'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
comicsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.23414
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 138.8 13 1
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 7
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 comics in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
up n’ doon stairs a day, wi comics, an ale, an sweeties. An she
ma WISNA cairryin sweeties or comics or juice. She wis carrying a
stumpies, sweeties, comics an ither geegaws. He tichtene
3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e happy: ah coppit up wi some comics in the rare Aiberdein sunshin(2016)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
, got the Dandy an' the Beano comics. | got to read a week auld. | on page 29

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
our? Places that inspired the comics can be fun aa ower the city, on page 14

2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Burnt bricht whan horror comics on page 23
Wi a fear engendered by comics, papers, nane pixels yit, on page 29

2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
re wi me an ma sisters readin comics like the Hotspur, the Bunty a on page 23

13 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
oyetry, prose, drama, an even comics. In aboot the'r a braid reeng on page 61

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
ett chocolate nugget an read comics till tea time when she wid ge on page 120

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
i the shops an aw, an weekly comics forbye.) on page 9

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
n tae the pictures an reading comics an wan day Ah wis moochin abo on page 45

1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
fae comics,
comics an scripts
an comics
3 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e new comic frae Diamondsteel Comics, Saltire: Invasioun. The prot
g wi the best o Marvel and DC Comics creations. Gin the USA can ha
ntin beuks, graphic novels an comics could see a significant amoon
3 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
n! Ye shoud be drawin yer ain comics!(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
in the swappin oO comics and cowboy annuals, on page 5

1 matches

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