Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'coupla'

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Use in varieties of Scots

coupla	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.4	18	8
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	35.5	8	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	20.5	4	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.9	2	2
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 coupla in Corpus

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West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
in the seat in front. Efter a coupla minutes, he starts up wan o t on page 102

6 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
e' ri fridge tae lerrit huv a coupla 'oors et room temperature afo
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
s through yur heid whin yuv a coupla meenits tae spare. It musta b
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
ow close, marble stairs and a coupla doors on
e daein the noo? Only another coupla weeks and ah’d see them.
2 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
n shop? Well, ah wis gettin a coupla rolls for ma lunch when ah me
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
oonDL Met Billy at a waddin a coupla year syne, some boay. Bit les (2020) twitter link

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Well, a coupla years efter that the Ingrid B on page 46
wir put in the jile! Bit in a coupla weeks they wir free an they g on page 47

2 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
GeorgeSq with the threat by a coupla dozen unionist neanderthals ? (2022) twitter link
commending consideration of a coupla NEC candidates. Roddy, here, (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
movin closer. A coupla heids th'geither on page 129

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
patchy in the port these last coupla nights but we'll catch up, ay(2020)