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The word 'conventions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
conventionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6156
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 4
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 conventions in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Da follooin spelleen conventions is øsed ithin dis primer an on page 32
fun aawye ithin da community conventions, fir example blyde /blaɪd_/, on page 36

3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ss masculinity man. Unwritten conventions established oer time that ur
1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
times an siclik auld spellin conventions cannae aye be brocht bak inti on page 59

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Eik 2: Common spelling conventions on page 3
n, disordert Scots or use the conventions o Soothron screivings for tae on page 40
Eik 2: Common spelling conventions on page 62
, shares maist o the spelling conventions shawn abuin. The tradeetional on page 63

7 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ee acknowledgement o the auld conventions; cairit oot in an aroond the
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
conventions,
spellin conventions,
2 matches

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