A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'runners'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
runnersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 runners in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a and a read o the paper. The runners are joost gaetheran at the fe on page 86

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
Runners
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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
in the last 3rd will see two runners playing off him e.g. Hedges. (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah studied the form ae the runners and riders until ma decision on page 30
ae the screen ah kin see the runners fur the three o' cloack at Do on page 36
eyed "Lads, they're the best runners ah've ever hud." on page 133
, that's fur sure. None ae ma runners will pick up or droap oaff fu on page 142

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