A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'paperback'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paperbackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.7255
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 88.7 20 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 paperback in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
d Beldie, tryin te myn. "An a paperback romunce." on page 20

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The Drummer Boy, available as paperback and Kindle editions from http(2016)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
PAPERBACK SCRIEVER on page 112

20 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Paperback wi 104 pages an bleck an whit
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
5th prent rin in hardback an paperback.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
This new paperback, cryit 'Anecdotes of Scott', on page 116

1 matches

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