A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'grounds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
groundsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61210
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 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 grounds in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Grounds fur divorce aetin a min’s sa(2020)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
and I believe you've got good grounds for saying it. Now it has bee on page 57

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
m fae the school gates on the grounds he wis frightenin some o the
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
en your work of the week, and grounds for escape. on page 57

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
right then, I suppose I've no grounds for belting you." His tone ch on page 98

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
big improvements at other eos grounds too and imo - its high time (2020) twitter link
he raw - crowds crammed into grounds/ pitch invasions/bevvy oan th (2020) twitter link
theres vantage points at most grounds - r ees at the wind up ffs - (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
fur a walk roon the hospital grounds cause Charlene's allowed oot on page 152

1 matches

General Central

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Had a walk in Newbattle Abbey grounds. Hibs 0-0 efter 1/2 oor. Love (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
f Scots in public life on the grounds that the language it uses is (2019) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
enDays, 2019: Spier’s School Grounds; Beith Auld Kirk; Beith Townh(2019)