A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'follower'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
followerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
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 12.2 5 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 follower in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
ind, ma mither wis a doctor's follower, she helpt at birthin's an' a on page 6

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ee clue - u a believe have a follower thats a big fan of the 10 acc (2020) twitter link
e galloway is a legend n am a follower oh the big man n the workers (2021) twitter link
@Longniddryafc big follower of the amateur game guys - p (2021) twitter link
@stuurq as a big follower of the amateur game its high (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
like a camstairy flae-luggit follower o the hoonds than the heidie on page 77

1 matches

@annieones tweeted
atulations tae oan yer tiktok follower success?. Weil deserved. Yer (2021) twitter link

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
bonsor @RheonJones I am now a follower! Happy Sunday tar you both an(2016)