A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'noun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nounOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.74814
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 122.1 21 2
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 22.8 9 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 5
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of noun in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
Tinsal – noun
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
on at de'r mair as ee dug (da noun is plural), bit da basic mean on page 43
4 Da noun phrase: Da entities o a Shaet on page 46
at d'ir øsed tagidder wi da noun. A lok o on page 61
n øsed on dir ain, ithoot da noun, dey wirk laek pronouns (see on page 63
ners shaas dat a body aans da noun at's bein spokken aboot, laek on page 65
Also on pages 67, 78, 102
20 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
’ here is laek a collective noun - a wird laek ‘watter’ o
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
inctions is whaur the verb an noun form o a wird is the same in
traditional texts) an "wark" (noun). In ma dialeck thir's baith
Anither example o this verb/noun distinction is "love" (noun)
distinction is "love" (noun) an "loo" (verb, whiles spelt
l" can be uised as a abstrack noun an aa, like in "a hurl in a c
9 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
, occur and the adjective and noun pagan.
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ein’ a name that’ baith a noun an’ a verb!
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wad seestematically draa oot noun cases or tenses, or whitever
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
which contrasts wi the verbal noun - ing(e) inflection. This dis on page 17
fact a verbal noun: the first day of compeirand. on page 18

4 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ye can see hou the wurd is a noun an haes sindrie spellins: law on page 24

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
s fecht. In Aulder Scots, the noun shaws verra little variation,
and verk. In the Aulder Scots noun we hae warke, vark(e), vuark(
2 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
o “the Scots language”, a noun phrase. Wha cares? Weel, apai
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
twirthy, reliable’, and the noun ‘tein’ meanin ‘sufferin
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
nae less nor an adjective or noun relatin tae Sasainn, the wird
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
Neukatyke (noun, #Scots): A rough, shaggy she(2019)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
these trumps the magnificent noun 'bletherskite' and its associ(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
origin: Middle English (as a noun denoting a horse's gallop): f(2020)