A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'vacant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vacantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.484
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.6 5 2
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 vacant in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ak a lookie it the Situations Vacant in the paper, than," said Dot on page 87

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ee if any ae the machines are vacant. on page 38
nted masel doon oan the first vacant desk ah could find. Ah then p on page 189

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
is still joost sittin there, vacant as fuck. No a single brain ce on page 8

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
lack, deid eyes like a shark, vacant an inscrutable. It bares its
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
this afore, eyes glazed oer; vacant. He’s goat that tunnel visi
kin stab me’ he sais, wae a vacant look oan his face.
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
at the same time, disparately vacant an unnervin.
1 matches

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