A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'extinction'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
extinctionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 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 extinction in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
r the very sam. Persecuted to extinction by 1916, brought back fae 74 (2020)

(South) East Central

McFarlane, Ishbel Time tae mairch oot o oor climate comfort zones, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
’ve jist stertit tae follae Extinction Rebellion Scotland, an ma fee
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
Darwinian gate tae linguistic extinction begins no wi a heidstane, but
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ames currently unner threat o extinction throu anglicisation. Forby th on page 14
leid tae the leet o language extinction an gar anither rich an distin on page 15

3 matches

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