A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lingo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lingoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 31.9 7 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 lingo in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
bsessed wi it aw, he wiz. His lingo chynged whin he spoke aboot c
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nzi14 @edinburghpaper luv the lingo - b oan ya radgie mucker - (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
uld make oot the soundy their lingo, but Italian was doubledutch
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
hem; get up tae speed wae the lingo an that an they’ll soon bac
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
need ti learn aw the mad golf lingo. ‘Wits a Paul Merton?’ a
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Do you speaka da lingo?
Sprechen sie die lingo?
Do you speaka da lingo?
Czy mowi po lingo?
4 matches

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