A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'inquire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
inquireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of inquire in Corpus

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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
n. Leddie Forester decides ti inquire at a medium, mebbies sum-hou
1 matches

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
r debate sic as “speir”—inquire; “threap” — assert; “
1 matches

General Central

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
st marvels’ an ‘Those who inquire about everything...’ As fau
1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
o 2013 an for wittins o’t, inquire at the UKELA wabsteid. Ye’r
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
ération that Daes eftér him inquire. on page 70

1 matches

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