Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'sayings'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sayings	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	6
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	2
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 sayings in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
ht enouch, whin wae hear thir sayings that hid wis "better a moose
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Dhammapada. Sayings of the Buddha
Dhammapada: Sayings of the Buddha
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ikk some great Doric phrases, sayings an words @scottishweek http:/(2015)

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
. We will share oor favourite sayings ae hers and marvel at her com
1 matches

General Central

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Kynoch’s Doric Proverbs and Sayings haes a wheen saws beginnin wi
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
look @stewartbremner 's Scots sayings fir inspiration: https://t.co (2021) twitter link
yer lairners tae mak a Scots sayings calendar? See this yin fae @s (2017) twitter link