Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'distinctive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

distinctive	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.5	15	13
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	5.2	2	1
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	9.2	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
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

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
important pairt o Scotland's distinctive linguistic an cultural herita
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
turnt oot tae be Nissart, the distinctive
1 matches

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

1 matches

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

1 matches

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
1 matches

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

1 matches

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

1 matches

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

2 matches

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
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
an fails tae treat Scots as a distinctive wrutten medium
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
irners can listen oot fir the distinctive markers o speech fae the Nort (2020) twitter link