A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dost'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dostOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.34010
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 41.1 31 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 dost in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
gaed a heist tae Scots editin DOST, a michty darg
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
telt the story anent SNDA an DOST chyngin thair names ower tae
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
New Bunnet For SNDA an DOST
writin, baith the SNDA an the DOST wis ettlin tae offeecially gi
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
ar, editor efter editor o the DOST an the SND chauvit awa tae fe
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Oor online DOST racks up ilk year,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
[T]he dictionary [DOST] contains thousands of anteda
Latin-derived words in which DOST antedates OED and for some of
in the new CSD, as weel as in DOST and OED, and they uphaud what
3 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST) on page 59

9 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Thou dost belated skeel confer on page 61

1 matches

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 58 - Newsins fa the SND, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
n o the Joint Council for the DOST, unner his ither hat as lectu on page 110

3 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) in the Record Edition, inclu on page 15
e the RPS. A major revision o DOST, or at least o the DOST pairt on page 16
is is marra wi and reinforces DOST's existin quotation fae The A on page 17
In DOST, the entry for the wird SENAT on page 18
on whilk is first recordit in DOST fae 1405. But the editors o D on page 19
Also on pages 20
10 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) is the wey that the spellin
luikin at raicently in baith DOST an the Scottish National Dict
bly little evidence for it in DOST, whaur we find darknes (2 quo
3 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
logies no juist in the SND an DOST but in the Oxford English Dic
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
mmer (full text, both SND and DOST) – No results were found.â€
lts in the SND and 169 in the DOST – and that’s only a ‘pa
ember’ is a heidword in the DOST (pre-1700), and that entry al
oond (full text, both SND and DOST) – No results were found.â€
4 matches

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