A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'grassmarket'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grassmarketOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
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
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 1
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 grassmarket in Corpus

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West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
bridge lookin’ doon tae the Grassmarket until ah cudnae pit it aff on
1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
ed tae death by hingin at the Grassmarket.

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
an quartered in the Edinburgh Grassmarket. Mibbe auld Archbishop Sharpe

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
tence Cargill wis hung at the Grassmarket in front o a big crowd, his h

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Farewell Grassmarket's howfs and dens on page 16

1 matches

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