A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'owerance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oweranceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus22.97612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 18 7 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 60.6 5 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of owerance in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
h's health statistics. Stench owerance wis laid on aa fowk frae area
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
rts whaur English haes hauden owerance for generations an there nae
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
taiblishment o a sub-group wi owerance for maitters tae dae wi langu
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
e ern brig at hed sic pissant owerance o the braid wattirs
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
gied devolution tae Scotland, owerance for Scotland's
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ils an ither public bodies an owerance tae sort oot a languages plan
makin it a statutory body wi owerance for pittin oot a Strategy for
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
ae meenisters daesna hae onie owerance for Scotland an that whit tha
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
o ae an ane an wi new-stellt owerance, gangs on ti deleiver the les on page 136

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
rage — Scottish Watter haes owerance o baith o thir — health, ed
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
nt, the scuils, nou unner the owerance o the burghs, gaed on tae win
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ae catch rabbits. Yet he haes owerance o aa the bease. He pits them
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
wer whit ane o them shuid hae owerance o the state. Sae it wisna til on page 40

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
instant feedback an feelin o owerance whan playin sic gemmes can up on page 54

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
instant feedback an feelin o owerance whan playin sic gemmes can up on page 54

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
as the mercat in Ingland got owerance o the tred in the prent buik
ic maiters or the day tae day owerance o the kinrik. This gaithering
and a wheen Puritan sects got owerance o the kintra. At the hinneren
Inglis upper cless that hits owerance in culture an langage micht b
4 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
ent: I – Preliminar; II – Owerance o spennin; III – Owerance o
o spennin; III – Owerance o leetratur; an IV – Hoo re
owerance o campaign spennin an gifts;
organisations). In haein owerance o the campaign an spennin, th
Owerance o the Referendum Campaign
5 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
kent is auntie Janet, hed the owerance o rinnin the hoose, an seyin
Kintra Dance Band unner the owerance o Edwin Murray o the Braidley
Him the owerance o thair herts an mynds.
n the yetts o Hades sanna hae owerance ower eet.” Masel, A trow at
heid teacher, exerceesed hir owerance i the big room. Nae schuil me
5 matches

General Ulster

DfC Press Offys Hargey sets oot Owersettin Hub, (Depairtment fur Commonities 2021) Ulster, government
r daeins. As tha Mannyster wi owerance fur tha Airsch an Ulster-Scot
1 matches

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