Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'quieter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

quieter	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	70.3	2	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	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	9.1	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	4
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 quieter 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.

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
n till e puppy's bark sounded quieter in e distance. on page 40
" repeated e Pigeon, but in a quieter tone, an added wi a kind o so on page 50

2 matches

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
, Mr Gowanlock said it again, quieter, an mair maiter o fack: on page 89

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e wah. The place fast becomes quieter than a library when ah'm cloa on page 182

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
e, cough, cough. Addison is a quieter cunt. He wears the clothes n on page 8

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
and look efter masel. I'll be quieter, I'll listen mair. Ma Gaelic on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
different town back then ~ a quieter town. Mair people walked alon on page 3
en he wis dyin because it wis quieter. He desperately tried no tae on page 44

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Mary: (quieter, but gettin steadily louder) on page 35

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
tae say, mah life is simpler, quieter bi times.

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
verbalpunchbag Has it got any quieter? This in the middle of naewhe(2020)