Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

dow	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	20.2	67	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	196.2	60	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	41.8	3	2
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 dow in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
irns fae löf o laand, der médow. on page 28
Low da mödow lies, a löf o land, owregien on page 36

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
d himsel tae the grieve, Jock Dow , fa bothied aleen in the chau
t at the tackety buits o Jock Dow , fa wis raxin inno the basket
Fur days noo, Jock Dow the grieve hid yolked three s
ryin wins. The day, tho, Jock Dow hid led the horse back tae th
Jist alang frae Jock Dow , Matthew Bruce, Minnie's da,
60 matches

Glasgow

McClure, Rob nothing but a set of eyes for stars - The Night, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
hole jing-bang and the row-de-dow of the night! on page 101

1 matches

General Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
, here win-, here win-fucking-dow, a piece of banterous word (2019)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Nor hae havins Ah dow, on page 47

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
Aye. As Ah said ma uncle Bert Dow (ex Dalhanna Drive, originall(2020)
@HughesPeg Jemima Dow(2020)