A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'semantic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
semanticOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4115
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 semantic in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
riest unit at haes sum kind o semantic content (i.e. sum kind o mean on page 38
wirds, meanin dey hae little semantic content an dat de'r onli a pe on page 51
semantic logic tae dis: wadder represe on page 56
at means at dey hae little semantic content an at de'r onli a lee on page 61
s at hae a braali transparent semantic on page 77

5 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
use it's thon at cairries the semantic content o the leid. It's thon on page 9

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
in the dictionar thegither in semantic fields is anither wey o seein
Anither field wi rich semantic gleanins is Burns vocabulary
Dunbar, covers a vast range o semantic fields and registers. Whether
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
€˜to endure’. Hooivver, the semantic field o the Scots verb is fau
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
free-er grund? An whit aboot semantic shift in thae pictograms - g on page 5

1 matches

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