A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'presented'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
presentedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 presented in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
presented tae ye here, at this oor, on page 22

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
e more, while e Dodo solemnly presented e thimble, sayan "We beg yer on page 26

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e wis ah, eh? expectin tae be presented wae some three heided fire on page 88
nd tae the social Only tae be presented wae twinty quid as if it wis on page 91

2 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
y Scots-speaking experts ably presented their personal wirk and aa fo
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
the purchase of a gift, to be presented to Her Majest....” It wis A
1 matches

West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
take the opportunity when it presented itsel, like wi poor Hayley. M on page 102

1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
hin his tae be placed neatly, presented neatly. Ma bed iways his tae
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
augh yin day when she proudly presented her new mobile phone fir us a
n, in Callum’s direction! A presented these poems tae them the nixt
2 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ssays in a HND class, A ay’ presented them in alphabetical order bi
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
remièred In Time o Strife an presented an toured a deal o his wirk. on page 37
ephen MacDonald at Dundee Rep presented the likes o Macmillan's The R on page 40

3 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
at there, snod and sauf as if presented in a bone china tea tassie or on page 18

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
railer tae 'Words and Burds', presented by Hamish MacDonald in #Scots (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
mair, while th Dodo solemnly presented th thimble, sayin "Oo beg eer on page 27

1 matches

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