A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'confront'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
confrontOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 confront in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
An fear o fit they wid confront, on page 8

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
aed roon tae Quarrytowers tae confront his dother an her new man –
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
awa’. Ah cudnae scream, or confront hum or whit. After whit seeme
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
en 'ae face up tae reality an confront aw they texts and missed call on page 3

2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
the front door an gaed in tae confront Wugs aboot the missin powney. on page 23

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
can be killt efter the polis confront him for nae mair nor sellin k
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
velled back tae Edinburgh tae confront the great an the guid. Still

@OliphantWullie tweeted
yir bell." He turns roond tae confront us an shouts about his right (2022) twitter link

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