A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'variants'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
variantsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8169
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 12.9 5 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
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 variants in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
· Staunart Variants
that "onythin" an "after" is variants that in maist dialecks wad be
Staunart Variants
wi their Nynorsk, we can dree variants ithin the staunart, an the pr
principles ahint maist o thae variants is weel-kent an can be pitten
5 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ie bi his readers, an saxteen variants o the buik's twantie-ane poem on page 141

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o that sangs hae lots o local variants, an the truth o the maitter i on page 67
e bia stinky fire thru aw the variants that oor splendiferous Scotti on page 107

2 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
rarchin connection atween the variants and byleids. He caitioned tha on page 45
it taks different byleids and variants intae accoont. on page 51

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
easily owerluik morphological variants while manually processin a la on page 17

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
eel cuid cover a guid whein o variants amang by-leids - an wad allo on page 4

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Association includes regional variants in its spellchecker, an in it on page 56

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
kle surprise, fur they are aw variants o the ae language – English
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
, forby, kenspeckle dialectal variants: sic as ‘een’, in the nor
1 matches

Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
on, an ithers) an lea aw melt variants for byleids, eh? O coorse, th
1 matches

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