Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'definite'

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Use in varieties of Scots

definite	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.3	21	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	34.9	6	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B	111.9	1	1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	13.1	10	5
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 definite in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
e aboot 790. We dunna ken fir definite whit happent wi da Pictish fo on page 15
be da general form fir da definite article ('the') an so da - t on page 60
4.4.1.1 Da definite article on page 61
inter (in Standirt English da definite on page 62

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Mid Northern B

Stewart, David Catch-Up Chapter 163 - Planning the Mystery Tour., (Facebook 2024) Doric, prose
“Moving on.... tae a definite destination for this years tr
1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
tracht as a die, but wi verra definite opeenions, an thraan as they on page 8

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@72redz1903 tweeted
a lang road withoot something definite aheid and hard tae use diplom (2022) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
Pynt is. Bi promisin a definite , meisurable ootcome fae his e
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
lazily tweaked CVs, certain. Definite. I cin see it, conversations on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Forth Brig, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
intae the watter something definite like! on page 28

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Usin the definite airticle on page 30

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
Hooanever, the war maist definite sichtings that soond faur mai
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
opeinion hauden til faur mair definite nor whit it is, in truith. An
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
Definite Airticle
ts and Gaelic baith yaise the definite airticle kenably mair in rela
l / an sgoil forby yaisin the definite airticle afore the time adver
y, Scots and Gaelic yaise the definite airticle in relation tae leid
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@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
c01 @ScotsScriever Aye gien a definite article - a bad case o the s(2016)