A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spelling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spellingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus22.17219
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
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 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 71.7 54 5
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spelling in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a tell them I'd gotten all me spelling wrong. on page 128

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
st a standardisation of Scots spelling is that one of the languageâ€
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
use da word geng no sure o da spelling. My mam used tae say going ta

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
I read online is littered wi spelling mistaks, does nobody ever tin (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@NatalieAHood I'm spelling ma name Sandie noo ????(2020)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@morganmurray__ @morganmlmx Spelling patter? https://t.co/JTHGpLbj(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
@FinHall Scam thing wrang spelling disna even say fit its for ch(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
rd". Nae idea if it's e richt spelling. It wiz usually if somb'dy wi(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
his hamelt Jeddart dialeck wi spelling that Scots Tung readers micht
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
c roondaboot is faster and ur spelling is awfill lol (2021) twitter link
rian hus a bit bother wae his spelling at times - bless him lol (2020) twitter link
rom the fm 2 day - literally spelling out solitary confinement for (2021) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
Dinnae be fashin’ aboot the spelling fer wan hing. An’ when ye g
An’ when ye gie up oan the spelling ye’ll fin’ that the words
2 matches

@annieones tweeted
v ye dinn this wan? (Sorry my spelling is bad) https://t.co/JVXgtjLQ (2021) twitter link

Dundee

Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber Fiona and the Ring, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
llege and used it to pass her spelling test wi flying colours. Howev
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Spelling on page 2
Eik 2: Common spelling conventions on page 3
elp ye spell Scots words. Oor spelling sheed, wrutten bi Martin Trav on page 5
rmal Soothron. Oor gremmar an spelling is that thirlt tae hoo the So on page 6
athoot haein tae decode Scots spelling an gremmar forby. on page 7
Also on pages 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 40, 41, 43, 62, 63, 64
50 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
s tryin tae capture a range o spelling). This produced the nugget th on page 20

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ined it by using an anglified spelling and grammar (p. 9).’ Houani
1 matches

Heron, Caitlin Groonded, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
I got bad spelling in ma report
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
s? Naebody needs to fix their spelling with me ??(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
hard tae aye be waatchin yer spelling for thon oul Twitter disnae h(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
the aul Ulster Scots: daicent spelling apairt fae "Scatts!? https:// (2014) twitter link