A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'twentieth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twentiethOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 twentieth in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ct," e King sade, for aboot e twentieth time at day. on page 118

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ditional Modern Scots an late twentieth century Modern Scots writins.
1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
cam tae be caad ootthrou the twentieth century, means that preceese
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
* Mair in the book A Twentieth Century Life Paul Henderson S on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
he issue, let me focus on the twentieth century. There wis a wheen o on page 37
nds o pleyscrievin in the mid-twentieth century in Scots. Yin, that o on page 39

3 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
nationalism caird o the early twentieth century (likes o the Finnish on page 56

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Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Ballad o an Irish student, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
a twentieth-century pilgrim
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
oduction ti The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry, p. x
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
earn aboot the language o mid-twentieth Century Glasgow fae thir play
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Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
the latter has heezit in the twentieth century. In the poetry o Burn
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South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
Scott an Hogg, and up ti the twentieth-century Scottish Renaissance,
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
In twentieth centurie Prague he died be fi on page 10

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