A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'prospects'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
prospectsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.796
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 prospects in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I telt her mithir ma prospects wiz fine on page 103

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
this wey, the urban and rural prospects o noble Scotia micht heeze ta
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
They talk o 'Long term prospects', whit are they? on page 71
ckt in puirtith, an the boy's prospects wir dim. His faither hud bin on page 100

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
imige tae their savins, their prospects an their pensions than fower
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Stricken wi grief and facin prospects drear, she wis nou aa her lan on page 63
Hugh lad, ye wad seem tae hae prospects, baith as a mason - for ye h on page 80

2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
reader o Scots, A relish the prospects o mair an mair rich eediom-ri on page 37

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
led 'Tradition', 'Strategy', 'Prospects' an 'Reputations'. In the fir on page 110

1 matches

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