A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scottis'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scottisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.65411
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 30.5 23 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 299.4 24 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scottis 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.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rsity tae study Fine Airts an Scottis scrievins – an cud hae trai
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
Whar scant were Scottis I had nae uther choiss.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
eason parteiklar relevant til Scottis leiterature an Scots itsel. ' on page 116

3 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
... Nocht for that Scottis is in the selvyn skant, but f on page ix

1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST) on page 59

9 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
language and was being called Scottis to distinguish it from the la on page 15

3 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
dialeck, that, thir days, wi Scottis fushioun, haes becum a lingua on page 22
r. Frae a readin o camsteirie Scottis historie, a bodie can wunner on page 23

3 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
‘Auld plain Scottis’
r Inglys oys, Quhar scant was Scottis”.
s, an whiles they cried it ‘Scottis’.
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
kythes alangside the epithet SCOTTIS SAPHO SAIGE – a fittin sent
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
Scotica, lingua Scotorum and Scottis. Thon is tae sey, it was crie
t tae refer tae their leid as Scottis insteid o Inglis. This flit t
t abuin, at the ae time as “Scottis” cam tae apply tae Germanic
s fae the medieval Scots term Scottis.
4 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
erton Pairish, Roxburghshire, Scottis Borders.
legislation, sic is the 1872 Scottis Eddication Ack, an A weird th
iety Transactions 1910. “Ae Scottis Sabbath Seventie ‘ear Sin.
d Welsh wis the langage o the Scottis Borders.
uth, wis notour fur his lue o Scottis Kintra Dancin, an Ropelawshei
24 matches

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