A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'distinctive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
distinctiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91614
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 6
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of distinctive in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
e will always be some form of distinctive Ayrshire speech, Caithnessian
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
ammes whilk will reinvigorate distinctive stories linked tae local cult
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
course, is the fact there's a distinctive lack ae talent walkin up and on page 167

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
important pairt o Scotland's distinctive linguistic an cultural herita
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
turnt oot tae be Nissart, the distinctive
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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
As thon distinctive intro fillt the air on page 61

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
that still cin celebrate its distinctive culture that ye cin learn thi on page 66

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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e the ‘considerable body of distinctive formal Latinate diction which
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General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
nction an gar anither rich an distinctive idiom gang oot o the warld. L on page 15

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Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
uries, it continues tae hae a distinctive impact on Scottish society. S on page 3

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
allous the leid tae express a distinctive culture an pynt o view. Richt on page 9

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
. Eng., into which they weave distinctive Sc. words or spellings someti
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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
an fails tae treat Scots as a distinctive wrutten medium
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@LairnScots tweeted
irners can listen oot fir the distinctive markers o speech fae the Nort (2020) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ce maks hit baith diverse an' distinctive. Nane o' thae thrie tradeetio on page 15

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