A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scrawl'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scrawlOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 scrawl in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ttit on the back in a spidery scrawl they cud jist makk oot these
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
His gawkit scrawl o epitaph on page 18

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
corner o her ee an undeemous scrawl o green athort the grey san o
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
islocation, richt eneuch. The scrawl wi in the white signature box
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Red an Black, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
oxymoronic pundits scrawl
an oxymoronic pundits scrawl
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
scrawl 'Nae Greys Here!' oan cludgie on page 71

1 matches

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