A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sc'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 2
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 sc in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
essed position, fər, fɪr (n.Sc.)" (sv. on page 80

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
a scöl o whaals spied affa Binna on page 62
I da moarnin der boy comes ta scöl. on page 68
y myl-gruel afore du gengs ta scöl. Dey'll be beest for when on page 70
mi mindin o life-draain at da scöl on page 86
er burkha, wears her hijab ta scöl. on page 98

7 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
oosomeivver, da last day o da scöl term cam an hit wis time f
da vet. Da bairns wis gien ta scöl. Smootie wis curled up cos
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Shakespeare’s Hamlet Ack 3, Sc 1
1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
http://www.sc.edu.edu/library/scotlit.html on page 15

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n writers have no feeling for Sc. of any kind. Their backgroun
which they weave distinctive Sc. words or spellings sometimes
2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Scots Lairnin w the Elph or w SC&T - speceefic the coorse ane(2020)
a canna think in either P or Sc but whit you said!(2020)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
#NipNebs is an original text Sc(2019)

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