A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'detached'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
detachedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 1
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 detached in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
t he keepit up a determinedly detached attitude as da familiar beeld on page 57

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
The basket o the balloon got detached frae the rest o it and rapidl
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
iths, he fand his mind cauld, detached fae his body, which seemt tae
a sweetness in it, an she wis detached, no walterin in grief or find
a sweetness in it, an she wis detached, no walterin in grief or find
3 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
, seein it aw simultaneously, detached, removed, the wheel ay fortun on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
eaned the two-bedroomed, semi-detached hoose she and Da struggled ta on page 10

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
cleuch Burn, stands twae semi detached cottages,
de i yin o yon Glenburn, semi-detached cottages, at stuid
Thar wur twae semi-detached cottages ferrer doun the road
r ker haund, stands twae semi-detached ferm
is kent is the Sker, the semi-detached Glebefit workers hooses, on t
5 matches

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