A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'south-west'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
south-westOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2143
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 117.4 11 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 south-west in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
t' tae the kintrae folk o the south-west - persecuted preacher an pro on page 29
barous Hielanmen doun tae the south-west, an quartered thaim in the bi on page 33
rivy Council tae suppress the south-west. Sae faur, he'd pad it 2a his on page 37
hated by the guid folk o the south-west, an nou tryin tae flee the fi on page 38
thole for the puir folk o the south-west. For the sin o pride there ma on page 39
Also on pages 51, 58, 62, 72
11 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
se a great fiery light in the south-west, after the setting of the sun
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
watter an travelled aboot the south-west o Scotland for a while afore
ewcastle an makin his way tae south-west Scotland whaur he did a bit o

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