A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dnaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8169
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 dna in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
trawled ben his computers an DNA data-banks sikkin a match fur
kidneys noo frae a body's ain DNA, like growin a plant frae a s
he embryos o humankind wi the DNA o lizards an birds. At the hi
d bin Brian Duguid. The final DNA tae be fused wi the twa speci
o oxygen, tae swap Bandara's DNA wi his ain. He'd bocht aff it
6 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
sing’ the next generation wi DNA Junior - great work and it w (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
failure. Yae see, it's in oor DNA tae fail, whether it be me or on page 21

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tit Neanderthals - there wis dna fae aa thae new postglacial s
Now, if ! could just run some dna tests on those red
2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Genetics haes ye by the DNA fallopian three month scan on page 17

1 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
It's aw "GPS and DNA", on page 17

1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
still share a lot o the same DNA, includin mony spellins. In t
That cuts us aff fae hauf our DNA.
2 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
ar_welsh I'm coping, Scottish DNA isnae made for this! I turned (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@FishGirls23 Oot ae Damien’s DNA? ??(2020)