A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'corpus'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
corpusOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62210
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 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 corpus in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
A muckle corpus o Scots comes fae laa, fir Sc
1 matches

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
warld's biggest appen-access corpus o Scots wis written by a OCD (2020)

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
In a corpus o spokken Shaetlan wi mair as on page 56
idda Shaetland data: ithin a corpus o 37½ oors o spokken Shaetla on page 80

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
at thochts anent the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) p
Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech,
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
gates the Airtik Sie tuik hiz corpus an aw Tittie's warl fauldit i on page 4

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
text or, as we wad cry it, a corpus, and, in the days afore compu on page 14
Modren Scots is the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS Co on page 15

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
tae set up thair ain 'Habeas Corpus Act'. Aa the people, binna th on page 134

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
ary efflorescence, includin a corpus o brilliant, inventive an
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
adults is the SCOTS (Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech) website: (2020) twitter link
elfast @theirishfor The Scots corpus is guid fir hings like this. (2019) twitter link
isten tae Scots oan the SCOTS Corpus site? Lug in an let us ken wh (2019) twitter link
o spoken Scots fae the SCOTS Corpus: https://t.co/R0RGO42OaJ #Sco (2018) twitter link

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