A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'legislation'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
legislationOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.73816
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 29.2 22 8
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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of legislation in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
tion tae foun their policies, legislation, an practice on a nummer o ke
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
weel leirit in linguistics an legislation, traivelt tae Miranda do Duor
Collogue on European Leids an Legislation wis the study o linguistic en
2 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
leid o the UK. Yon absence o legislation maks fur discriminatory polic
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
wad need Scots or UK hameart legislation first.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
lic upsteerers see government legislation as necessar tae bring aboot i
Language Act or Secure Status legislation pairt o its manifesto commitm
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
s juist tae say, "There is no legislation pertaining particularly to th
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
forrit unner the human richts legislation an the Race Relations Act.
1 matches

West Central

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
recently on thon Land Reform legislation we think isny tough enough. W
1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
ity, really needs tae prepare legislation for a Scots Language Act, sim
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ms o wards fer Pairliamentary legislation fer Scotland, seej, as that's on page 18

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Government in takkin faurrit legislation anent the Scots Language. The on page 5

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ives in stellin the policies, legislation an practice o states an is re on page 18

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
xample is fae 19 January 1450 Legislation, whar the neat phrase nocht a on page 17

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
ation o ongaun initiatives an legislation
policies, legislation an practice o states, an is r
2 matches

gov.scot Biggin a strang future for Gaelic an Scots, (Scottish Government 2022) Central, government
ttit fae formal support throu legislation, an hit micht be timeous for
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
haes been a hantle years fae legislation wis inactit in support o the
been stiddy progress fae the legislation wis inactit, we ken thit ther
efittit fae formal support in legislation an wi aye growin support for
ommunity warks, in steerin an legislation, in national structures, an i
Scots langage. Whaur primary legislation is wantin in thir maitters, t
12 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
eriously Wild Law approach to legislation anywhere. Elements of Wild La
ontext, ane o the EU pieces o legislation at is regairdit as cumin near
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
tae seek ootside support for legislation an budgets haein growed yaise
rt, an brings forrit stranger legislation on land reform, a stranger st
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
nae linguistic discriminatory legislation, sic is the 1872 Scottis Eddi
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
legislation shud bae althered in line wi' on page 25
ote forebye at the draft NDNA legislation maks a duty fer Ulster-Scots on page 26

3 matches

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