A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'neutral'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
neutralOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5186
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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 68.9 11 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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 neutral in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
who's remained an annoyingly neutral cunt before. But no now. on page 137

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
As an attempt at remaining neutral ah disengaged fae the whole b
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
” she sayed. “A very good neutral choice when you don’t know
atiently repeat, “The baal (neutral as tae possession) is ahint t
in Use) is forenent the baal (neutral as tae possession); the bead
(possessor) hae three preens (neutral as tae possession, plural); t
(possessor) haes mair preens (neutral as tae possession, plural) no
10 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
e pruif. The writer maun bide neutral bi drawin on facts, feegurs a on page 10

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the eediom o furmality an “neutral” traffic, that is, o coorse
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ane: the maist neutral modern Scots; guid fur inform
bit mair colloquial, but aye neutral eneuch. A productive morpheme
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
s a hertsair lament in gender neutral voice anent absence fae a fem
onymity plus female or gender neutral voice plus their unique kythi
2 matches

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