A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'instances'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
instancesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.62810
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 30.5 23 5
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) 88.3 1 1
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 instances in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
, but er ayont commonsense in instances whaar skweels employ security
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
ere seems tae be mair an mair instances far products that are traditi
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
f History (1996) are jist twa instances o the reality that even athin on page 15

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
stie Williamson, haes intil't instances o Scots that haes different m on page 5
context, geographic spreid an instances o leetratur intil't. on page 12
nsie in haein byous an strang instances o screivings in the Scots lei on page 15
. This means that in a puckle instances the wrutten mak o a Scots wor on page 17
Twa guid instances o words in Scots an Staundart on page 18
Also on pages 21, 24, 30, 31, 36, 39, 47, 50, 52, 59
16 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
her European (maistly Inglis) instances. on page 110

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
find this claim orra in mony instances. Shairly wi fowk efter a haun on page 130

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
oetry o the time, is in maist instances, hamper’t on the stage for
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ablow. The documents is braw instances o offeecial texts in Middle S
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
o ane o the earliest ayebidin instances o female homoerotic poetry in
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
™ (see later). There are even instances o the spellin ‘hus’ in Sc
and that entry alane cites 58 instances. Sae whaur did they dreg up â
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
fyres. Letter writin, i maist instances, wuid bei ae wuman’s darg a
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
oo o wise come-affs an modren instances; on page 51

1 matches

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