A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'erk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
erkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 1
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 erk in Corpus

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Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Canto Erk! Ma Saunnies on page 110

1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Thir’s nae erk-biggin oan council property!
ed luikin braw. The bum o the erk
Ben the erk we culd hear the greetin-face
e spate o water heezed up the erk,
in this toom erk, in this toom warld.
5 matches

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