A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'opposed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
opposedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62014
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of opposed in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
urse, that we are necessarily opposed to building work as such, but
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
da letter 'i' as in igloo as opposed tae da i in ice cream. I akse

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ay the main theme is folly as opposed tae guid sense in oor sexua| on page 110

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ce. Nae mair nor in 1989 they opposed the imposition o the Poll Tax on page 18

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ribery an corruption had been opposed by the vast majority o fowk i on page 120

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
he had “Guid han’s” as opposed tae bein’ “Ambidextrous
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
notion ae their pleasure, as opposed tae just yir own. Like the Az on page 41
ae the mighty lion any day as opposed tae the arctic fox. That's wi on page 50
identity and who are fiercely opposed to each other. As well as bei on page 54

3 matches

General Central

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
ploy a trilingual approach as opposed tae the current bilingual app on page 6

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
'sometimes' repone - 76%, as opposed tae 25% in Grampian. We micht on page 9

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
dentify strangly wi ane o twa opposed historical identities. In con on page 56

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘forever and always’ (as opposed tae the mair literal: ‘for
English spak in Scotland) as opposed tae bein pairt o the modern S
2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
W When we were in Denmark (as opposed to warmer Spain or Portugal*)(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@murdo_fraser As opposed tae who - Boris? "Ah well, y(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ongerin fae the yins fiercely opposed tae it. Ma mental health disn(2021)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
0 @OorVyce Standardisation is opposed by more than a few within the(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
an a winda! Winda in larne as opposed to windee.(2020)