A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'founds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
foundsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 founds in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
through the very founds, ruckling fuirboards, on page 18

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
be gied nyow founds, sen it wes slawlie sinkin in
out, bot fand at the stane founds let me frae in-pittin a nyow
t bug about the damish ti the founds, sae A hed ti
3 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
im. It wad hae sattelt on its founds, thay jaloused, an shiftit, m on page 19
r, reeshle-reeshlin throu the founds o her haundbag. Haed she been on page 31

2 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Cain, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The founds o aathin daecent. on page 72

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Scots revival taen it as its founds, an the twa-three innovations
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
rns ti bigg on thair cultural founds an bouster thair sense o faim
1 matches

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