A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pronunciationsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3103
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pronunciations in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
nglish name seems to have two pronunciations (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
alect; an maybe - caase o da pronunciations o ‘dem’, ‘fock’ an â€
it up wi aa kinds o different pronunciations o English wirds - English, S
t we canna pit up wi Shaetlan pronunciations fae idder isles. Dis is caase
- for example, da different pronunciations o wirds laek ‘more’ an â€
4 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"jaur"). Seein as Glaswegian pronunciations are awfy context-sensitive, t on page vi

1 matches

General Central

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
uid can beir aa thae differin pronunciations, an is aesy recognised as a S
ral ti uise spellins at shaws pronunciations – sae eg: ‘Fit are ee fus
haracteristic Scots soond (an pronunciations like ‘shop’ an ‘on’ a
onform tae tradeetional Scots pronunciations tae – is better for a conse
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