Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'sig'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sig	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.2	4	3
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	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	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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sig in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
rbs att sätta/ställa/lägga sig 'tae sit doon/staand up/lie d on page 76
att sätta/ställa/lägga sig 'tae sit doon/staand up/lie d on page 95

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
esna Mean Onythin. It has nae sig- whit's yon word? Weel, there on page 63

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he'd shown me perfectly in ma sig. nature kicten heels. His eye on page 58

1 matches