A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spaces'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spacesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62016
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spaces in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ht tae luik forrit til. Still spaces. https://t.co/CgOGDQr3uZ (2019) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
h, Oslo has plenty mair green spaces tae keep yer leggies an yer m on page 16

1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
spaces that mak ye feel safe - hame on page 35

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
an the airchers in aboot the spaces o the schiltron. Atween them
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
atching george clarks amazing spaces al - wee bit mair intulectua (2021) twitter link
many sports at the wide open spaces at the meadows - its sum ven (2021) twitter link
s tweet guys - the wide open spaces of cavalry park n no fans - (2020) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
eas, sent us back tae sílent spaces whaur we need nae mair Scots
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
remember wis the letters had spaces in thim whir the wurds had be on page 76

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
s leavin’ easily explorable spaces. We were in the middle o’ t
1 matches

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
The paper's blue wi deep blue spaces between faint grey lines an t on page 18

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Orbitin Man's mechanics o spaces frae Charles's Wain on page 7
rae the fauldit corners o the spaces on page 11

2 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h wall opposite the parkin’ spaces reserved for The Secretary, C
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Cubismo Part II, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
in the spaces on an aff the baa
1 matches

General Central

Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
re o political debate, openin spaces that mair an fowk can identif
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
press, ye canna see the gapin spaces ahint thaim. This is the Pote
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
roond fameeliar spaces, on page 46

1 matches

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