Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'versions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

versions	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	11.5	38	21
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	17.4	3	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	137.6	3	1
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	2
EDN - Edinburgh	31	5	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	27.6	21	12
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 versions 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
ses da stressed an unstressed versions o da sam wird micht compound on page 38

2 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
it, or ta ‘invent their own versions of it, as part of a reclamati
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
itied the Adam Watson English versions tae come up wi his ain set o
up wi his ain set o modren ‘versions ’ o the place-nemmes. These
o the place-nemmes. These new versions will be pairt o a beuk that w
3 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
surprised how monie different versions o a story they’ll tell ye a
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
s o Jeames Hogg, contains twa versions o his first wechtie publicati on page 137

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
maistlike were jist Christian versions o earlier legendary or mythol on page 30
Ither versions o the story o the Nine Maiden on page 81

2 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
annae mind. A'v seen a puckle versions o't - maks ma happy tae see (2020)

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
r-East, is foondet on English versions as is the skeely Scots render on page vi
ectitly, I hae fund the Scots versions tae be a haundy tuil fur teac on page vii
an savour o Scots. Gin these versions awauken in ony reader a glint on page viii

5 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
n the gemmes aforehaund, test versions can be dounladit. The 'Games on page 54

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
n the gemmes aforehaund, test versions can be dounladit. The 'Games on page 54

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
or halflins screive their ain versions. Burns wasnae his lane that d on page 69

3 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
re was at least hauf a dizzen versions o a staundart spellin for Sco on page 56

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
sbet descrives here, in baith versions , is a strang licht, that he c
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
an for mair consistent Scots versions o siclike documents i the fut
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
g tae baith Scots and English versions o ilka airticle.
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
s shortsome kennin the Slovak versions o weel-kent sangs, lik hits b
1 matches

Robertson, James Dr Wha, (Scottish Poetry Library 2018) Central, poetry
through endless versions o reality?
1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
@foreigncorr1 So many guid versions but this yin is ma favourite,(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
tweets Theres a wheen ither versions an mair aboot it on Youtube. (2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
i ma class. Pupils wrote guid versions in Scots, Polish and Tagalog.(2016)

@LairnScots tweeted
or that, we hae downloadable versions oan https://t.co/vXeokzXeD6 t (2021) twitter link
airnin games (wi downloadable versions available tae) are here: http (2020) twitter link
9 - we hae online an offline versions. https://t.co/ebka9RNVlL (2020) twitter link
ye can see the film versions o some o his stories here: ht (2020) twitter link
he morn? Download colourin-in versions o oor 'neep' an 'tumshie' ima (2019) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.