A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'manchester'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
manchesterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 manchester in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Harper, Norman Stronach: A Weekly Look at Life in the Fictional North-East Village, (The Press and Journal 2000) Doric, newspaper
up on aul times. Reg bides in Manchester. I see him once in ilky 10 ye
1 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
dude, moght hae a quiet ane, manchester on monday(2013)
785 courteeners are playin in manchester on the 28th o september. Man (2013)

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
the industrial revolution in Manchester an Lancashire, raither
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nd n look after the people of manchester - good luck (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
oord, Celtic, Barcelona an’ Manchester United! An impressive C.V. in
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
enegadeRuth, freen, never min Manchester: Melrose, Markinch, Monifieth(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
lived amongst them, Brighton, Manchester, London, St Albans, and know (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ry FUCKIN February. . . . the Manchester Unt v West Ham gemme is oan B(2021)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ine, lang's yer no bevvyin in Manchester!(2020)