Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'seagull'

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Use in varieties of Scots

seagull	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.8	9	7
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	5.1	2	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	9.1	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
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 seagull in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
a scurry an a pewl, but nae a seagull ?? (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
tae chainge it. White, mibbe. Seagull. Big. Strong. Raucous. Scaven on page 1

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ng such as this' - there's a seagull peckin at the chunks in some on page 8

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"Big...Mad...Seagull Man!" on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ony fresh whaup, wild deuk or seagull eggs they'd gethert on the mu on page 56

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
oat and pointin at a decrepit seagull. 'Mammy! That poor wee burd's on page xiii
alise they're covered in warm seagull shite. Ah've been gettin warn on page xiv

2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
n o wirds that #Scots has fir seagull! https://t.co/L5pWbnT2uY http (2020) twitter link