A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'exams'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
examsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81915
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 32.8 3 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 23 5 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 exams in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
, daiths; anes fir passin yer exams; anes fir leavin a job an sta on page 24

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
t sae mony i' us tae pass oor exams an aim heich xx(2018)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Nae schuil exams this year. Jings. (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
mit his papers an screive his exams in his mither leid. There'd b on page 53

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
gment hid arrived. The degree exams were on at King's an ye could on page 85

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - Three poems, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, poetry
Throwe wir exams. He aften teuk the gee
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@HairyAngus @affaloon There's exams ti dee first(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
re yiv deen jist grand in yer exams. Fan r the results thru(2011)

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
w aulder, throu street signs, exams, instructions, frae awthin 'i
deiths an marriages - takkin exams an naming their ain weans. Ho
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
effort intae preppin fur her exams: Frieda's wan ae these folk t on page 169

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Nae exams then or ony palaver - on page 82

1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
Scottish lit question in hte exams, while Curriculum for excelle
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
halp wi the bureaucracy or wi exams - sic fowk tane mass transpo
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n. Ah wis like this afore the exams fur ma Highers. Ah hud a lot
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
oon an hed failed his medical exams. Ma muther supplied
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
we'd a Scots channel, paper, exams, films etc. It's whit only la(2020)