A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'encourages'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
encouragesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
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 encourages in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
way, ah said, A hospital that encourages yi tae pollute yir lungs. Who on page 152

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ours comin fae the plate soon encourages him tae raise his heid before
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
existin statutorie guideship encourages aw bairns and young fowk tae on page 39

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
hen | gang outside. My mither encourages this. She doesna like my bein on page 3

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Harper, Emma Promoting the Scots Leid, (The Scottish Parliament 2021) Central - Stranraer, government
shrinkin the attainment gap; encourages memmers o the neist pairlamen
needs o its spikkers; forbye encourages futur MSPs tae ettle at heizi
2 matches

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