A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'limited'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
limitedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12020
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 limited in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
y, are unwritten, and enjoy a limited range of uses. Languages, in
1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
p online to discover it was a limited run only available in hawaii. (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rge demand and places will be limited.'" on page 6

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
reid o the age-reversal drugs limited tae fowk in key joabs, police
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(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ackaged, controlled and sold. Limited use of Patois is tolerated as
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Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
At the funeral, we wur limited tae ten attendees, aw ae us s
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
n prent, sae that he may in a limited sense be even something o a s
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
high time clubs were allowed limited crowds in at least for all th (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
this Kingdome... froma legat limited monarchy to ane Arbitrary Des on page 44

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Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
that wis ma limited intellect. That cunt never di on page 35

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Of course, knowing Nichols’ limited vocabulary, it probably cidâ€
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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Very limited snow an’ a superabundance o
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Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
he exit and disappears. In ma limited experience, ahve found that m on page 27

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
e band. The bubble ay equally limited musicians an and the ease ay on page 3

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Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
You're limited to bigotry enough, that's ple
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General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
bein aa-powerfu, gied me the limited rational brain A hae. An ye k on page 49

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@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ye they tell you when you are limited ??(2020)

@g_hibby tweeted
ent tae the kitchen Douglas.. Limited choice... Nae Lorne... :( (2022) twitter link

@raiphsays tweeted
hift in a “very specific and limited way”... *aw nods*(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Limited edeetion prent rin o 200 numm(2020)