A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'periscope'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
periscopeOccurrences 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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of periscope in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
tae be lookin throwe a trench periscope viewer fin he saw fit lookit
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
a snaw fite coat an wearin a periscope roond hes craig, an iz lyin
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ame m8 - al huv a shuftie at periscope n c whits trumps - mon the b (2020) twitter link

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
y & postin on youtube esp as #Periscope isnae available on android ye(2015)
ebook" as ma brain canae dae "periscope" yet! ?? xxx(2016)
effBrazier Sadly a dinae dae "periscope" Hae a guid debate, an please(2016)

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
1 Thons quality. I seen it on Periscope.(2019)