A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'portable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
portableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.796
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 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 20 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of portable in Corpus

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General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
t, etc think they started the portable saw market.(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
that wee room watchin the wee portable telly an then every so often on page 97
ae company bar hig shitey wee portable telly. on page 100

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
in thair flicht path on a wee portable Muse o his ain, yaisin the sa
the place o onythin yisfu an portable. Some o the Wanderers wis pil
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
arpiece in listenin tae a wee portable trannie next tae us while McD
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
y an his men were pittin up a portable fake village ful o happy, wei
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ourced tae forder an' staff a portable exhibition unit fit on page 8
o' Ulster-Scotch tae forder a portable exhibition unit at can gie a on page 46

2 matches

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