A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'requests'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
requestsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 requests in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
otsfilmguy @Wattiejwattie Ony requests loon?(2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ours. Do you have any special requests that we may be able to fulfil
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
his shrill requests for mair.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
wi direck requests. In the praisent issue, we ir on page 7

1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
urgery has an online form fer requests. Ye anely hae tae phone fer a(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
zieb @jojodinks79 @star_welsh Requests is it the now gorgeous? ???? (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
teacher wid ignore me and ony requests fae me until I spoke 'proper (2020)