A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'monk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
monkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 monk in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
otten fae thi Parten Factory, Monk Heed's weis a gweed Partin Ba on page 30

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@air_ingy I'm weerin ma Art Monk shirt. Mon the 'skins. I mean(2021)

General Northern

TheChielMeister Ah'm e chiel (sae dinna fash), (youtube.com 2011) Doric, poetry
fa faur-seen, ah'm a Buddhist Monk fae Punakha
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
olis came. The six bottles of monk vino? Well, yer honour, the d on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
nd his heid, like some kind o monk. And in the front, whaur the on page 30

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
scussion afterwards an Missus Monk the Guidance teacher said, An on page 83

3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tae sing - bit that brocht a monk fae abuin, smilin
ns. Ah’ll hae a wird wi the monk in chairge o the kitchie, an
2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
springs. An aboot AD 500 the monk Dionysius Exigus in Rome cam
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
l scholars sic as the English monk Bede, and Adomnán, an Abbot
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
b back in your hole yi ginger monk. #cantbuythechampionsleague(2020)
another. Well done yi ginger monk(2019)