A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'regions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
regionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62213
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 14.6 6 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 6
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of regions in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
resentin the UK, its nations, regions an communities.
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
p wi bairns fae ither dialeck regions.
s wi bairns fae ither dialeck regions, the same as is duin for lang
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
regions an recognition tae thair lang
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tcher's parcel o countries an regions"
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
st no the same now in all the regions of scotland alas - it must b (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
apairt? The economies o haill regions gettin wrackit an riven? Nane on page 122

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
€™ crushed an’ sair groinal regions!
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
tive o different Scots byleid regions, on page 45
saictors, regions and social strata, but that t on page 48

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
nd that aw ten sindry dialect regions o Scots haes mair in common w on page 15
s claimed bi a nummer o Scots regions. Glesca City Cooncil war the on page 38

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
tcher's parcel o counties and regions on page 70

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
deiferent things in deiferent regions. In Grampian, we wad expeck m on page 9

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ilka airt leain it wi smooth regions that pits us in mind o oor Mo
at thair maist strang in the regions atween the middle gird an the
o materials taks us intae the regions atween starns. It haes lang b
3 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
in a number of countries and regions, which reflects the interdepe
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
tae aa Scotland’s cities an regions wi the Yestival Tour. Through
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e muckle effort wi hir nether regions whan she makt sae little wi h on page 20

1 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
ffering forms within counties/regions of Ulster. For example, the E(2020)