A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'garrison'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
garrisonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 64.1 6 2
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 garrison in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An ding't the hale English garrison doun, on page 128

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
s o names o absenters tae the garrison sodgers, wha went frae hous t on page 26
amang the common folk, an the garrison troopers were ordered tae see on page 28
n safely back here afore thae garrison grumphies ower at Sorn hae st on page 30
g gate at the wrang time When garrison troopers were seatchin for Co on page 39
lang that gate back tae their garrison at Sorn Castle when somethin on page 51

5 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
deleiverin proveisons tae the garrison in Lanrik castle, if ma memor on page 15

1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
high tailed it tae the Lanark garrison an gied the game awa.

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
desperation they ordered the garrison captain tae leave the cell do

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