A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'underfoot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
underfootOccurrences 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
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 underfoot in Corpus

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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
the frozen field, aw crunchin underfoot as we walk. Every wan ae us i on page 16
wind or broken glass crunches underfoot. We're aw chattin shite, tryi on page 32

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the late eighties. The carpet underfoot is threadbare wae folds an te
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
atch how ye go, it's fair icy underfoot.. That's ye telt... Have a gu (2023) twitter link
d be wary for it being slippy underfoot... Nane o' yer fancy dancing (2023) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A crack it gie's frae underfoot on page 15

1 matches

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