A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'squares'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
squaresOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21714
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of squares in Corpus

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Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
p an separated inta patchwork squares wi deep, broon ditches sliced
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hocolate sirprises an caramel squares. The only day wi ivver hid a on page 87

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ess. She started tae find wee squares o tin foil that looked as tho
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
o read Just been torn up into squares on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
weesh thaim wes pairtit intae squares wi a puckle little-wee green on page 31
an said, "A pawn traivels twa squares in its first meeve, ye ken. S on page 34

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
squares) Knott girse came tae the tap
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
sed, canna even wak roond the squares in the village withoot gettin(2020)
wee sing along in the Fittie squares! Fit tae dee on fit a day! ??(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
E: I noticed. Eftir three wee squares, he wis chasin Mrs Docherty r on page 62

1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
throu streets an squares, on page 5

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
e lassie gets tae her feet an squares up tae me, Aw ah can smell af on page 5

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
o black figures. The wee blue squares ae a radio n the crunch ae fo on page 34

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
an streets arranged in exact squares, circles an triangles. on page 12

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
on sindert squares o tha yin colour. on page 60

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Ding Doon tha Mairch Dikes, (Modern Poetry Translation 2019) Ulster - Comber, poetry
on sindert squares o tha yin colour.
1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
There were apple squares an' flies graveyards, sodas a
1 matches

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