Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'verbal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

verbal	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	9	30	16
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	23.2	4	1
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	10.3	4	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.4	2	2
GLA - Glasgow	10	2	1
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	19.7	15	7
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 verbal 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.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
n da waik/unstressed form fir verbal prefixes an waik prepositions on page 31
Verbal negator: Da action is quet on page 44
a negator is da morphological verbal suffix - on page 88
tences. Wi auxiliary verbs da verbal suffix - na on page 89

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wi Vi, fin the soun o Sandy's verbal explosion fullt the room: on page 31

1 matches

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ed. It hed tae be cut wi some verbal knife. Murray didna like tae on page 87

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
age that isna uised for baith verbal an written communication cann
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
he ither haund got nae want o verbal abuse frae individuals baith
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
maik o Hansard) didna gie ony verbal inpit frae ony o the eicht Sc
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Braw verbal pictures he could paint.
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
er utterances becomes a kin o verbal Rubik cube.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the best ah kin hope fur as a verbal exchange. The sad thing is, h
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
leavin McDade tae suffer the verbal onslaught he’s ill-equipped
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
wis whiles manifestations © verbal sectarianism fae a low life f on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
icked me up this morning, the verbal hyperbole ejaculating from yo on page 33
d argie that the phrase, 'the verbal hyperbole ejaculating from yo on page 34
be Scots, jist as the wirds, verbal, hyperbole an ejaculating are on page 36

5 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
nd(e), which contrasts wi the verbal noun - ing(e) inflection. Thi on page 17
fact a verbal noun: the first day of compei on page 18

5 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
has chynged tae the skaith o verbal
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ergerac is a racket display o verbal shenanigans, but again it’s
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
Kempin wi Dante in a verbal speil,
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
negatit verbal endins in ‘-ae’, sic as o
1 matches

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eam, an forbye giein his lugs verbal pelters tae mak him see sense(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
A verbal daud
1 matches