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 sonsie

The word 'norn'

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

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nornOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83612
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 156.9 27 5
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of norn 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.

Orkney

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
r his dictionary o The Orkney Norn.
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
bi da Nort Germanic language Norn, at dee'd oot ida eighteent c on page V

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
every knowe a wird pictir in Norn. on page 19

3 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ts main ancestor languages is Norn (extinct) an Scots, wi a lok on page 7
s da noo extinct Scandinavian Norn, da language at wis eense spo on page 9
¸k ower in 1469. Da shift fae Norn tae Scots geed peerie wyes an on page 10
forebears: Shaetlan comes fae Norn an Scots, wi a lok o influenc on page 12
ast Norse, at wid come tae be Norn. At da sam time da Northumbri on page 15
Also on pages 16, 20, 47, 87, 94
20 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
In The Norn Language of Orkney and Shetla
The reason Norn died ... was because the Nort
2 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
wir maistly taen fae de aald Norn; 'laverni' is een o dem, deri(2020)

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
Isles, in Orkney an Shetland, Norn wis spoken until the 18t cent on page 40

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
s keepit kenspeckles fae Auld Norn gremmar, a leid that's the fo on page 21

2 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
s day, in Auld-Angles an Auld Norn. In coorse, Latin (whither di
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
Smashin! A Norn poem on ma timeline! https://(2019)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Norn' Irelan' selectors wir on the on page 2

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
Och, ye've made 45 dolls frae Norn Irn wile happy!(2020)

General Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
t her wheesht an tha lichts o norn Bilfawst kythed ablow thaim.
1 matches

Web Analytics