A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'marker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
markerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4116
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 marker in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
duced influence: da possesive marker - s, laek da cat's tail, fir on page 36
ural. Da Shaetlan existential marker is in fact on page 87
n dis is døn wi da invariant marker at, an hit's a braali common on page 97

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
pathie. She pickit up a black marker an screived 'Enjoy yer 'space on page 21

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ae await the next pauper. Nae marker wiz allowed.
st stone money can buy as her marker!” He teen one last look at
2 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
m Usually the aul traivellers marker te get oot on the road for su(2020)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
cer that huv left a permanent marker oan ma psyche. Any smidgen ae
1 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
ey yaise 'ken' as a discourse marker they're less aware o it. (2018) twitter link
dy use ‘ken’ as a discourse marker? 'I went oot yesterday, ken, (2018) twitter link