A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'que'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
queOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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 que in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n rushed tae the front ae the que wae the sniffles." on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Je parle en français parce que la question de langue pose un on page 35

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
scrievit 'elle n'avait passé que trois jours et
1 matches

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
Fur feck sake right on que https://t.co/xvpmjssnzf (2020) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
uys ended up at the end o the que! xxx(2015)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ue par accident de geography, que ca." (2022) twitter link

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