A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lengths'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lengthsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2147
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 31.1 7 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lengths 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.

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thurs only a couple o lengths atween thum noo is they pass on page 87

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
race well and hus goat a few lengths oan the even money hot shot. on page 42

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
at the seven foot mark daein lengths an divin fur rubber hoola hoo on page 12
ty, thirty, fifty an a hunner lengths. After we come oot the water, on page 14
lene had done a hunner bliddy lengths. Up in the spectator bit sumd on page 15
emed tae be on different wave lengths these days an we had been fur on page 169

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
at the seven foot mark daein lengths an divin fur rubber hoola hoo
ty, thirty, fifty an a hunner lengths. After we come oot the water,
lene had done a hunner bliddy lengths. Up in the spectator bit sumd
3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
cuttin braid strips frae some lengths o seck-claith that he'd broch on page 53

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
syne that we war blin tae sic lengths o time.
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ak the latinate style tae the lengths at some Inglis writers did. T
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
o flesh cuid traivel sic lang lengths. But mibby, jist mibby, theâ€
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
the back. They'll gan to ANY lengths tae preserve the union. (2022) twitter link

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