A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'races'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
racesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51815
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
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 races in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Brenna can hiv her races tae Federal Tings, as lang's on page 142

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and I can do nothing. My mind races, but nothing else can. I am a on page 85

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
fock in fae aa erts an aa races. on page 28

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ill the boredom in between ma races ah've decided tae hae a wee f on page 36
's won three ae its last five races. Then as ah begin tae drift i on page 37

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e the newcastle speedway team races - even had stock car racing (2020) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
€™ Scooby Doo an’ the Wacky Races an’ she thocht that TV cart
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
better than any day it thi races. on page 67

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
e thair tyme i sports an yatt-races. Thusgates the Inglish tung m on page 13

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
A surge ay dopamine races through me, an ah’m in a st
1 matches

General Central

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Mair alang wi twa poems Leith Races by Robert Fergusson and The H on page 46

2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
y fae the drysauters. We haed races wi girds, rinnin alangside as
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
n travel the Ways thit the er races cuildnae access.
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
o Rab Fergusson’s poem Leith Races: “In July month ae bonny mor(2020)

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
aw day sesh at kelsi races on jocks bus #honestlyamnoexc(2012)
i isni lettin is gan ti kelsi races wi the boys coz a made a c**t(2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@Bulla7 no game ti the races the day.pulling the bits back(2012)