A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'expendable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
expendableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.622
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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 expendable in Corpus

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
er useful, nae doubt, but yer expendable. You get me whit ye owe me, t
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
gairdit Scottish fishermen as expendable gaein intae the EU. They nive
1 matches

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