A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'librar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
librarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of librar in Corpus

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General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
reat university, a place wi a librar bigger than ma hale wee hame
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Nine Fragments - III, (Lowdown-L 2009) Central - Central, prose
haur thay wis buildin the new librar. The lassie turnt in on the b
tae a hole in the foond o the librar, heystit the lid aff this lan
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
ben the owthar's kist. Aw hiz librar o Scotch buiks wes triglie st on page 11

1 matches

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e hale o the byordinar muisic librar o the Chaipel Royal (a import
Stirlin) is tint til us. The librar held fower antiphoners an mon
2 matches

General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
git the leaflet? Juist at the librar itsel?(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
Here at Wester Hailes librar the day wi Scots language dic (2018) twitter link