A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'notch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
notchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 notch in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
tches afore the match wiz top notch. Needin a fans view seggy at (2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
en owreset as The Hill of the Notch bi Watson. Insteid, Finlay pr
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ssure seems tae huv went up a notch or two efter aw that exciteme on page 37

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ommentary team 2 day were top notch - but some of the comments a (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
oon and the heat hus turned a notch up oan the thermostat. Such s
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
Seahooses ... ?? aa’ are tap notch!!(2020)