Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'explaint'

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Use in varieties of Scots

explaint	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	9.6	32	5
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	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	62	10	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	23.6	18	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)	65.7	2	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of explaint in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
social media. Mony a time he explaint juist foo little it teuk for
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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
le when Mister Miller went an explaint it tag us. Come on be a pal, on page 80

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
o get her into a hospital,” explaint the young man. “There will
etion for thaim. Yince he had explaint whaur Nilyungun wis, they leu
yed Mrs Bose, whan Rongye had explaint that Beatrice had went oot fo
ne naethin for grantit, an he explaint things weill, e’en if he di
ere no muckle in it ...” He explaint foo he had come by it. “Are
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General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
heir probation, the Bill team explaint that the airts o lingueestic on page 13
n Eilean Siar, Donald Macleod explaint that, in the case o the Wastr on page 14
rish in Gaeltacht airts. They explaint that ilk airt haes an officer on page 15
hlands and Islands Enterprise explaint- on page 17
ylie o Orkney Islands Council explaint that an airt o lingueestic si on page 18
Also on pages 24, 25, 31, 32, 34, 42, 46, 49, 59
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Scottish Parliament Gaelic and Scots in Scotland: Whit daes the census tell us?, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central - Edinburgh, government
s it haes fawen. This coud be explaint by the grawth in proveesion o
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East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
'This is Daniel," explaint Maisie tae hir nephew. "He'll on page 13
"It's Grannie Higgins," explaint Hughie fur Daniel's benefit. on page 14

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