A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'item'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
itemOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11716
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of item in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
an when I wis double checkin item codes an colours an sizes wi (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
to offer in exchange for this item?’
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
is open tae question but the item duly appeared in the Fortean
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
sket full, then 10 folk wee 1 item waiting!(2017)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
shie-heid that introduced the item on the tellie shawed the hail
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
Aprile 1565:- Item. To ane boy passend of Edinbu
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e lol - eer needin a guid 12 item breakfast doon u n a fish sup (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hard Chambers are a bit of an item. Yi heard wrong Miss, ah tolt on page 169

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
an Raggle wis mair or less an item, an she fund hersel mair an m
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
an ilka time he passed a new item o vegetation, he wid luik fur
1 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
ch95 There ye go. We'd caw an item of low grade material a "shan (2020) twitter link

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
he dictionar entries for this item: ‘I'll cleed thee in the ta
1 matches

Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
r findin yer favourite luxury item on sale. It could be a moment
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
A gey flittable item o syntax meanin ‘in additio
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
yesterday, so that's another item on ma roll in the morning... (2023) twitter link

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
m Irish all without I'm every item Scotch within"
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An item o lang minenin, on page 26

1 matches

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