A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'supportive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
supportiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 supportive in Corpus

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General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
s amazin’. We’ve aye been a supportive bunch, bit noo even mare so. (2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
But ma fans huv all been pure supportive to us an ah think it's only f on page 157

1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
s outdoorsy fowk ar aften sae supportive o the idea o repeoplin the la
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
ther, you!” she’d sey (ay supportive ma mither ken?)
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
Bòrd na Gàidhlig, while gey supportive o the Bill's ettlins, believe on page 5
ister statit that she wis gey supportive o the Gaelic Furst approach t on page 39

3 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Mony thanks tae Billy, supportive o aa as aye. Lug in the nicht (2020) twitter link