A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'requires'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
requiresOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4189
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.1 13 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of requires in Corpus

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Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
goat ma beg coat oan an that requires me 'ae wear boots and no trai on page 3

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
, posin another question that requires nae answer.
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
goodness sake, laddie, aa it requires is a bit o common sense,' he on page 41

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
redd up the problem, and that requires action. It requires legislati on page 6
e status plaunnin whilk itsel requires a negotiation surroundin its on page 9
achievin 'effective fluencie' requires opportunities tae speak Gaeli on page 36
requeest GMPE is bummlin and requires simplification. on page 41
vie burden upon parents as it requires them tae find five bairns in on page 42
Also on pages 49
8 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
that "Part III of the Charter requires the Member State to apply 35 on page 121

2 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
possible, but desirable. This requires an independent state o mind.
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
t the Scots Language Blether (requires Glow login): https://t.co/OFt (2018) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
r fowr hunder year. Scots nou requires defineition an the'r a want o on page 34

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Noo requires me TV glesses, on page 53

1 matches

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