A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'offshore'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
offshoreOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 offshore in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
en dat a pod o orcas had been offshore a peerie while afore ?? https(2016)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ot with the intention o going offshore after time was out. Never lef(2020)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
in. He wis cried the OIM, the Offshore Installation Manager, tho ahe on page 47
I'll make Sure you never work offshore again, now get out of my sigh on page 53

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General Central

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ces twice as much energy from offshore wind as it can eat. Oh, and t (2022) twitter link