A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'suitable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
suitableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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 suitable in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
neral-education Scots leid is suitable for inclusion in the curricul
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
eneuch Hogmanay he hid fand a suitable text, frae Peter Chapter 5, v
1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Introduction, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
s, a lack o contemporary wirk suitable for aulder students in Doric on page 9

1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
et for Jeanie, and pick oot a suitable malt. She then leukt oot a fe on page 1

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ns syne some o the fowk maist suitable for thae jobs wisna at the fo
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
faill wis cut. She had fund a suitable property, tradeetional in cha
idert flingin at Nusiret wi a suitable expletive, excep that the Aul
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
rd. Reluctantly huntin doon a suitable appointment fur me. An action
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a worse time, but there is no suitable alternative. Does this sound on page 57

1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Am tryin’ ti think ae a suitable excuse when a notice a big be
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
, and happy too; Robert was a suitable match but there was true hert on page 3

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
They claes are no suitable for a funeral.
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
ten demonstrates they are not suitable candidates tae manage a messa (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
recently updatit activities, suitable fir CfE... an FREE! https://t (2021) twitter link
', a Scots language resource (suitable fir bairns at Primary schuil) (2018) twitter link

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