A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'discoorse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
discoorseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.52112
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 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 70.3 5 3
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of discoorse in Corpus

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West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
t's the language o oor public discoorse. The coded vocabulary o oor p
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
tae reclaim its auld areas o discoorse frae the absentee landlairds
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
e content oot-throu Major’s discoorse ithoot takkin tent o a wird o
er aboot the place. Major’s discoorse haed gien the mair lang-heidi
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
is brichtent for a wee be the discoorse o a bonny lass. She aye had i
1 matches

General Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
nt in Scotland as a subject o discoorse is the Mid-Ulster dialect o I
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McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
tae the mainstream o national discoorse. The maist prominent example
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Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e unhealthy gin there wis nae discoorse atween groups an political pa
rty bears the gree. Political discoorse can be fund in ilka airt, an
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
c (or potentially democratic) discoorse tae the reactionaries. Mind t
“mainstream, acceptable” discoorse, we can brak intae it. Think
“mainstream, acceptable” discoorse the noo is sae feart o the ne
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
rident an agin the xenophobic discoorse that’s taen ower mainstream
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
nt environmental an political discoorse- sic as wabsteid wis coined..(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
micht hae kythed in shamanic discoorse anent the richt readin o craz on page 5

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Discoorse atween King Oenghus an a Spae on page 76

1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
A recked fu an aa-lappin apen discoorse tae be a maun-dae in tha oncu on page 1
re baak an forrit in tha apen discoorse weerin til tha wye this Roadi on page 2

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
re bes a baag pairt o' public discoorse , Ulster-Scots curns irnae ap on page 40

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Smyth, Anne I Corinthians 13, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster, prose
The mair A discoorse in the gate o man-bodies an a
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