A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

The word 'hostel'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hostelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9138
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
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of hostel in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
bit we set aff wi maps, Youth Hostel memberships and a hale lot o on page 28

1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Hostel
The hostel wis weel aff the beaten track
2 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
nt that Till steyed on at the hostel in St Andrews. The hostler an
e eerant-louns, an kickin the hostel cat – but he’d niver got
the ither benefits. Ony ither hostel in the toun – an ye’re wa
3 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The hostel tint her o her clart, her rag on page 5

1 matches

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Ballad o an Irish student, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
or youth hostel, as fowk noo say –
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
auld Kirk opening is ae SYHA Hostel on 22/06/1935.
Hostel an wrat til hir, raiglar.
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
bit that ye widnae ken wis a hostel, cause in spite o’ it bein
So A’ve left the hostel and A’m careenin doon the a
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
ke o a ospittle, care hame or hostel) fur nae mair nor 6 monds;
1 matches

Web Analytics