A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'substances'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
substancesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
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 25 4 3
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
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)
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 substances in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ccount of the wide variety of substances ingested by the maw throughou
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ience, feres) haes intil them substances that’s necessar for the wee
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ot of pharmaceutically active substances into Chinese medicine. But th
e’s just got a lot of inert substances in mountain dew.”
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e, if ye say so. No lackin in substances though, is he? Ah gie him the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
n fund the acquisition ay any substances that help them realise it. Fu
1 matches

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