A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'depend'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dependOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41817
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 3
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 9
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 depend in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
So - I must still depend on Jock and keep me mooth shu on page 8

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
wir envionment. At voar yowes depend on trows. Wir kept trang help
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
carve the tongue or turkey—depend on't they're no in a state o
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
as popular culture. It disnae depend on onie middle-class nories o on page 75

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
depend on yir nebir on page 73

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
dinnae ken. A jalouse it wid depend foo far back ye gang. https:/(2020)

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"That'll depend a lot on whaur ye want tae ga on page 44

2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ids an the tongue A yaize cin depend freely on the themes an topic on page 40

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
ther that is appropriate wull depend on the circumstances and the on page 55

1 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Ye depend on each ither tae conquer thi on page 32

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Bothwell - on him I rely, depend. on page 19

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
'I don't know, do I? That'll depend
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ear, naethin that follaes sud depend on the reader kennin whit tha
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
is appen tae debate. That wad depend on whether a body defines Hib
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Ma granny haed tae depend on the wee bit her aulder las
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@fairpechtoot tweeted
'Clap-a Clap-a handies'. Must depend wha's takin it. Non-Scots spe(2018)

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