Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'conceit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

conceit	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.9	23	16
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	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	32	3	2
LAL - General Central	19.7	15	9
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 conceit 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.

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
fower skinnymalink wi a gweed conceit o hissel, thooms stack inti h on page 54

1 matches

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
restin ane. Murray hed a guid conceit o himself as bein ane o the b on page 84

1 matches

Jamie, Kathleen Eemis Stane 1 - Whimbrel, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
rnin fuel, burning thro their conceit of thirsels. Thir radios must on page 5

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
n sieven hills to satisfy the conceit an tae be honest, whan he sta on page 9

1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
leit o candidates efter thair conceit on thair merits. Fuftie perce
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
mm!" said the Mous, wi a guid conceit o himsel. "Are ye aa ready? T on page 25
wae or three times, wi a guid conceit o hersel: for she thocht, an on page 44

2 matches

Lehane, Matt Gif I was, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
hat youse divnae’ I’d mak conceit a punishable sin
1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
years she haed growen a grand conceit o hersel: bonnie an bricht, w on page 16
en retiral lang syne, but her conceit o hersel wis hale an fere, an on page 17

3 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
saiddle gitths, fou o his ain conceit. Bit while he rade, thon muck on page 14

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
TIP: Never tak a guid conceit o yersel whan writin in Scots on page 16

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
n as he woke up he had a guid conceit o himsel, as if awthin lippen on page 68

1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
ommitment sits alangsides the conceit thit Gaelic is for aw athin S
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
in oot juist whit it is. That conceit mebbe soonds a tait orra an w
ve tae aw thir debates is the conceit o Scots bein a rule-govrent s
2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Mid-Ulster Inglish is, in ma conceit , no wi Hiberno-Inglish ava bu
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
urfeit o pride. ‘Yiv a fine conceit o yersel,’ she wad say.
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
ss the ‘creengin-crabbit’ conceit that says, ‘dinnae spell it
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
es hunners. Itd be a braw conceit fir a podcast.(2018)