A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'verges'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vergesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 verges in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ir first appearance along the verges on page 16

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Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
glish, very ‘proper’, and verges on chanting! Bit Ah’m been

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
nguages evolve lik plants. Da verges on page 19

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
lookin at da flora o roadside verges and yarnin wi aabody da cam b(2014)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A'll grant it maks the verges neat,
1 matches

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