A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'portrait'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
portraitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41812
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 6
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of portrait in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
vel to town, to have a family portrait taken.' on page 78

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ggie, liftin er glaiss te the portrait o the heidless maanie wi'd bi on page 33

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Wifies latest pet portrait whilk cost anely £50 an the (2017)
Pet Portrait Christmas orders are being ta(2017)
The latest pet portrait from a photo by Mrs Doric Phr(2018)
The latest pet portrait bi Mrs Doric Phrases usin acr(2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
s tae Nancy Rice aboot Phil's portrait o her, "Not jist want to save
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Cubismo Part II, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
intil a portrait than maist harns
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ht sairious. Here is the best portrait] coud dae o him efterhin. But on page 12

1 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Huvin his portrait pentit. on page 17

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
this that ma Uncle Rab, whase portrait ye see hingin on the waw tae on page 126
e aboot ma Uncle Rab - whase portrait ye see ablow ye. Noo, let me on page 136

2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
mes Joyce’s collegianers in Portrait of the Artist. Mair aften nor
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
like as no hae a contemporary portrait o her. Siccarly, we hae portr
In this ferlie imagined portrait, commissioned in 2021, her fa
in in style the letterin on a portrait o her brither John, “1586â€
3 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
October, 12:45-1:15pm, at the Portrait Gallery(2019)

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@StuartPoet They micht hae a portrait o him inside :)(2020)