A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'shire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.34116
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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) 107.1 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shire in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Sheeps wool clings on tae the shire wire fence on page 16

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
a ootlets, Aiberdeen Toun and Shire Tourism Pairtnership (ATP); S
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
the quines o Aberdeen an the Shire, have a guid day! xx https://(2016)
n an adore oor bonnie City an Shire - Happy Valentine’s Day abi(2017)
Day events in Aberdeen an the Shire. Thank you fur yer service, w(2017)
o simmer in Aiberdeen an the shire yestreen! https://t.co/MAXnwO(2019)
buik club in Aiberdeen or the Shire: https://t.co/pq6bq1sjao(2019)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
pporters Happy Birthday fae i Shire. I mind bein stuck in hospita(2019)
nites abdy in Aiberdeen and i Shire. We are igither, we are een! (2019)
knowledge I hae. Buttery in i Shire. Rowie in I toon.(2019)
. #doric #teuchter #aberdeen #shire #aberdeenshire #rowie #butter(2019)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith Shire a richt the noo nip roon the (2020)
s57 @dorkymum A wid say Perth shire jist to be awkward(2020)

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
owerset bi Lang Kenny o the Shire on page 45

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
t pickin in livin memory: the Shire an Dundee an Angus. https://t(2020)
et them in ony baker's in the Shire. Micht be fit the by-pass wis(2020)

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Yon grand big shire, on page 13

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
er or no thay war born in the shire whaur thay bade, or belanged on page 40
o sasines keepit in Embra, an shire registers 0 sasines, an fowk on page 52
. Mony sma papers airtit at a shire or toun flourisht an descrive on page 56

5 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
and Whitebridge in Inverness-shire.
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
In 1990s Kinross-shire this was ‘Tell tale tit, yer(2020)
@DavieGreig Kinross-shire, by Carnbo - shuchin up tae (2019)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
f, I need to clear my head". 'Shire' (adj.) meaning pure, clear a(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
For tae shire ma birlin heid. on page 18
An spake oor leid, an shire oor heids? on page 39
An it's time for tae shire yer birlin heid on page 40

3 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ome tay an a feed o fadge wud shire their heids. (2017) twitter link