A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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The word 'consonant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
consonantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8164
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 1
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 11.8 9 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 consonant in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
al coards birr whin you say a consonant, he's voiced (laek b, d, g, z on page 25
nsonants an aa. Agein, a lang consonant jüst means at it's pronounce on page 28
wi a consonant or a vowel: a aple, a bottle. on page 63
if da neest wird startit wi a consonant. Da preposition on descends f on page 78

6 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
or no da nixt wird sarts wi a consonant or a vowel: a aple, a bottle.

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
the alliterative 'h' unvoiced consonant that gies us the norrae o the on page 63

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
hat oor alphabee jist haes 21 consonant letters tae staun for 26 cons on page 18
Scots tuins we hae 26 ordnar consonant soonds an 16 ordnar stresst v on page 62

7 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
re needna be muckle bather wi consonant soonds in Scots, sin maist o
1 matches

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