A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'villages'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
villagesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21713
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of villages in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
lookit roon aa thi sma fishen villages on eih North East Coast an en on page 17

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
, stappin aff at the toons an villages alang the wey. Mony fowk will on page 17

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
nae getting in though coastal villages Pennan Gamrie n THE PROP ken(2020)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
e the hills and blootered the villages o Arcadia. Aw the people o th on page 18

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Big Schuil, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
oudit wi bairns fae the ither villages, a lot o big laddies an lassi
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
t wisnae jist fowk in the wee villages an clachans o the countyside on page 29
intae the touns an new model villages were lang past an the big est on page 82

2 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
n colours, small-holdins, wee villages wi
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
fences, the river; touns and villages and ferms. He held on page 18

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ent by the inhabitants of the villages to the west.
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
avaig intae Brunton & Luthrie villages when yir in the vicinity. Awf (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
eeven young men fae soothwest villages; on page 7

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
eeven young men fae soothwest villages; brothers, cousins, husbands, on page 69

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ster-Scots heirskeip toons ir villages, (a hairtlan bein' tuk tae on page 49
programme o' heirskeip toons/villages on page 50

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
trevelt throu aa tha toons an villages, taichin ïn thair Meetin Hoo on page 9
An he gaed throu tha toons an villages, taichin as he went, aye heid on page 94

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