A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sites'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sitesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82215
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 4
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 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sites in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
clett? Used to be a couple of sites down there(2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ane o yon new widlan beerial sites. Appairantly, they plunt a tr on page 14

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
re this dreich ridge were the sites associatit wi prehistoric fol on page 77

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
excellent language education sites......and then there's this on
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
s am banned on most stock car sites now lol (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
sites, in fack, fer a range o commu on page 32

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
a fae aa thae new postglacial sites. An Guid kens, there wis a ho
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Glasgow

Durie, Nick A Scots Letter, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Glasgow, prose
e pucklie o academics wha hae sites sic as: Scots leid Quorum; Sc
s speikers curn web Etc. Thon sites are brah but thar's nae ower
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Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oney. Ah’ve worked oan they sites. Ye could fuckin spit through
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
. Ah’ve blocked aw the news sites oan ma laptop.
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
aboot pan-handlin oan buildin sites, tradin oor sweat fur a haunf
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General Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
(tae ither sites) an co-ordinate Scotland’s
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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ura 2000 network of protected sites and the strict system of spec
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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
nt metalwarkin and settlement sites, sic as Dunnicaer and Rhynie
aboot 1,700 year syne. These sites aw conteen siblike early styl
r evidence fae archaeological sites anent whit type o beasts were
LPIN OOT AT THE EXCAVATIONS O SITES SIC AS RHYNIE AND BURGHEID, W
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@LairnScots tweeted
/ Doric quizzes fir historic sites: https://t.co/kTeu6XgaYL http (2021) twitter link
s hae links tae resources and sites that support the SQA #Scots L (2020) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
hae a wheen o' key heirskeip sites adae wi' US presidents aroun' on page 64
lettin' uisers visit the main sites o' Ulster-Scots intherest. Th on page 66

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