A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ahint

The word 'musicians'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
musiciansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.74815
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 50.6 11 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 63.7 14 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
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 84.3 6 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of musicians 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.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ys. Thankfully, there's great musicians sharing tunes online to keep (2020)
Aa da best tae da bakers, musicians, drivers, guisers, dancers, s(2014)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
gin 'Jolene' in a pub fin twa musicians speert if Ah'd like te jyne u on page 58

1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
Max's idea wis tae gie buddin musicians a platform tae appear in fron
It's nae that these musicians mak a fortune aff the clubs.
2 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
he 'Wall Poetry' project, far musicians wark wi street airtists. The on page 12

2 matches

(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ncy haes heard oor singers an musicians, read oor poetry, spakken wi
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
threapit tae ill-taen aulder musicians o the day that they (The Ston
1 matches

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
ps, jist an eerie void. These musicians werenae human in the slightes
” I stammered, “I saw the musicians and how they hypnotised the d
e dances...and then I saw the musicians take aff their disguises and
ert sighed. “I ken those ‘musicians’ you talk about,” Robert
survive you need tae kill the musicians. Only then will your family l
11 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
wi a humorous bent, an monie musicians an bands playit fer free at V on page 107

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ant that the sailors wha were musicians, like ma great-grandfaither W on page 36

1 matches

Glasgow

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

14 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
iolet Jacob tae name a puckle musicians an poyets A adore. Scots is a on page 57

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
muisic wad hae made them guid musicians. We maun aye mind that, maugr on page 69

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
der Montgomerie; and scriever-musicians associatit wi the court o Jam
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
as4Moray What about music and musicians? Why does football get priori(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
imon and Garfunkel. Brilliant musicians(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
bother hen. We have the best musicians ?????????????? https://t.co/G (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
stannin an' waark chansts o' musicians an technicians in thon airt. on page 30
Cooncil tae heft aboot saxty musicians. on page 42
' the bes' young Ulster-Scots musicians perfoarmin 'langside on page 45

6 matches

Web Analytics