A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sprint'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sprintOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 88.3 1 1
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 sprint in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ah did, it wis practically a sprint. Ah wanted tae be the first c on page 98

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
tae see whur ah’m gaun. Ah sprint through the school gates, tur
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
The six ae us sprint at them, still shoutin like f on page 19
alled it. A see ma escape n A sprint fur it n dive ontae the platf on page 35
x. They aw shite themselves n sprint like fuck. A hear ma name git on page 60

3 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah need fur ma purposes an ah sprint oer tae it, ma bladder feelin
Breakin intae a sprint, ah race through them, shoode
2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Sprint oot tha dair ain nir be back. on page 17

1 matches

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