A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'patois'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
patoisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5182
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 43.1 17 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of patois in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
expert in Scots, in Jamaican Patois, or in the relationships betw
but she also speaks Jamaican Patois, which has Scottish, Irish, E
ame, Ah try tae speak as much Patois as Ah can tae her because Ah
s hame an Ah believe that her Patois is closely tied up wi the thi
milarities in the way chattin Patois in Jamaica an spraffin Scots
17 matches

General Central

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
and Means of Annihilating the Patois and Universalising the Use of
1 matches

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