Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'preservation'

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Use in varieties of Scots

preservation	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.1	10	8
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	21.2	2	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.8	2	2
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 preservation 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.

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ion made by Oor Wullie in the preservation of the tongue." Minimal resea
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ither twa pillars o supposed preservation o Scottish society arenae muc on page 18
, thirlit as they are tae the preservation o the status quo, shuid be sa on page 61

2 matches

General Central

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
within Scotland, tae mak its preservation siccar. on page 2
k actively contribute tae the preservation an promotion of Scots languag on page 5

2 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
nent finding of lawborrow for preservation of the trew and obedient subj on page 23

1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
n wabsteids dedicatit tae the preservation o Scots. It’s a thraw back
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
'Ye say its up fer preservation, an icon o design' on page 48

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@StuartPoet tweeted
@byrnesong Self preservation in his constituency. Same wi (2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
tres fordered at wul heft the preservation, forderin an' shairin o' cult on page 8

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