Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'selfie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

selfie	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	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	10.1	4	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	4.6	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	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	28.1	2	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of selfie in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Tae A Selfie (a "broad Scots" poem inspire(2014)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Cheeky peerie selfie in da meadows in Edi efter a (2018) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ig 2 nite brother n send me a selfie oh u n wee jimmy up fir a slo (2020) twitter link
miltonDecor thats efter a wee selfie wae u afore the nxt match bro (2020) twitter link
r auld kay burley - he got a selfie taken wae her at the sky call (2020) twitter link
e - so you must have taken a selfie at the gym - no lol priceles (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Gen up, lemme take a selfie !
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
, is adjustin hur boobs fur a selfie. Hur and ma Isla would get oa on page 6

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
w lairnin gemmes, tak a Scots selfie or blether tae us aboot Scots (2019) twitter link

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Wud ye tak a wee selfie wae me?? on page 36

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
Selfie fae yestreen's Burns Nicht ho (2015) twitter link