A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'paperwork'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paperworkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 1
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 paperwork in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
llum sees a mannie drap a his paperwork. Callum thought he looked lik
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
veesitit her granfaither. The paperwork had aareadies been duin tae a
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ile shiftin through a pile ae paperwork. She appears annoyed at ma pr
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
e cover fur ye, doactorin the paperwork an chaingin joab numbers tae on page 9

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
’ she sais, flickin through paperwork an runnin doon the pages wae
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
e cover fur ye, doactorin the paperwork an chaingin joab numbers tae
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
others tae....an if its just paperwork at end of day it will help yo(2014)