A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'expansion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
expansionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 expansion in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
m o industry, traed, galactic expansion: Light. Inga an Olaf is aye a on page 24
y be here, in the path of our expansion? Ready for us to find? For us on page 43

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@peediepuss tweeted
stout Booming in Scotland and expansion intae new areas his been a ru(2020)

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
An noo da Norse expansion starts. Shetland wis first se on page 15

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
o Great Britain, an its later expansion intae an industrial pooer in on page v

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
nummer o Gaelic teichars, ony expansion wuidnae be deleeverable.... T on page 33
lifeed staff is a barrier tae expansion o GME and GLE, ane that is oo on page 35
on. 6 Gien this, he views the expansion o the duties on education aut on page 37

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