Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'prepositions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

prepositions	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	4
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	40.7	7	1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	2
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 prepositions in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
wi its own grammar, adverbs, prepositions , pronouns, and soonds.
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
s øsed fir adverbs an strong prepositions an da waik/unstressed form fi on page 31
6 Prepositions on page 78
Da choice o prepositions can say a lok. We aa bide IN on page 79
(prepositions): Da man stüd ON da stane / on page 80

7 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
A wid draa yer attention til prepositions and adverbs like aback and ab
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
’, biggit fae the twa Scots prepositions ‘oot’ and ‘wi’.
1 matches