A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gatekeepers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gatekeepersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3113
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 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 74.3 7 1
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 gatekeepers in Corpus

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West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
he status report is guid: the gatekeepers micht still in place, but the
us aw. Lat's no hae ony mair gatekeepers, or credentials - lat's no h
2 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
r, shoutit oot for Scots. The gatekeepers hae been chased awa. Noo for
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Siccan fowk were cried Gatekeepers by a freen o mine, an A recko on page 17
that rins faur deeper in the Gatekeepers than oniebuddie else, haun; u on page 20
k it affy hard indeed fer the Gatekeepers tae keep up their lickspittle on page 21
er publick consumption bi the Gatekeepers that hae sae keenly supportit on page 59
and Scots were assumed bi the Gatekeepers in the 19th century tae hae b on page 60

7 matches

General Central

@jack_capener tweeted
us aw. Lat’s no hae ony mair gatekeepers, or credentials – lat’s no (2018)