A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'offspring'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
offspringOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of offspring in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Will you leave any offspring when you die? Neen that I ken on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
aborted. If 'twis braw, their offspring wad gae intil the hatchery al
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
e to Greece at moment Boris's offspring awa ti see granda Stan(2020)

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
(often applied to ungreatful offspring), 'raise crows and the will t(2020)

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Good to see one of Trump's offspring turned up to cheer the SDLP r(2019)