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The word 'vocabular'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vocabularOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus19.66516
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 48.8 20 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 53.9 41 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 vocabular in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
wi a differ, but owerleppan, vocabular, grammar, intonaetion an pron
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
weel yaised word in Hershaw's vocabular an this is the best kind. His
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
son gies us insicht intil the vocabular o Burns, an Colin Robertson c
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
· Clessification o Vocabular
s in the common Scots/English vocabular. An aiblins wi the wey it's a
Clessification o Vocabular
een important in keepin Scots vocabular an spellins ablo folk's een,
4 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
n a muckle infusion o Romance vocabular efter the Norman invasion, an
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
airns wad eik tae thair Scots vocabular an aiblins the teachers wad e
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
cairries a gey yuissfu Scots vocabular.
e warkin cless an thair Scots vocabular gets mair an mair watered doo
regaird tae the dwynin Scots vocabular amang oor hamelt Scots speake
a body tae eik tae thair ain vocabular in ony language is bi readin
t Scots speakers wi a braider vocabular reinge alang wi a risin gener
7 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
he hinneren wi a select Scots vocabular. Howanever, the souch o the g
men that wad hiv haed a braid vocabular. Spence's owersettin haes bee
colour, price £6.99 wi Scots vocabular. ISBN978-1-902407-59-3 publis
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
r exposeetions, verb leets an vocabular leets. The'r a history o the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
iden thair kennin o the Scots vocabular, eedioms, gremmar an spellin;
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
he uise o auld warl spells an vocabular serrs as ane innins ti the ma on page 11

1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
comment on the nature o this vocabular oo share wi Inglish. Share is on page 59

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
Scots exists. It has its ain vocabular, its ain grammatical formatio on page 7

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
IND THE DIALECTS. Whan ye use vocabular or spellings belangin a parte on page 5
* Technical vocabular on page 9
Technical vocabular on page 12
A leid is mair nor its vocabular - it taks gremmar for tae wi on page 21
sin Soothron gremmar an Scots vocabular, the author micht write: He s on page 24
Also on pages 32, 33, 38, 43, 44, 51, 64
18 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
n international research, bit vocabular and syntax are gey important, on page 9

3 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
fu dictionar wi aa the shared vocabular, is urgently needit gin we ar
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
age, like spellin, grammar an vocabular. Houaniver, sin the examples
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ss o elaboration – borraein vocabular, grammar an eidiom – Scots
deifficulties is the latinate vocabular we fin oorsels uisin, baith i
nology. Maist o this latinate vocabular is the same in Scots as in In
in Staunart Inglis, baith in vocabular an in grammar. The Laitin inf
hey aften introduced latinate vocabular athout the warrant o an oreig
10 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
onds o the leid an ithers the vocabular. Writers o Scots haes tae mak
s, the’r nae problem wi the vocabular, aither, for Scots can haundl
sh o C.K. Ogden, that gat the vocabular o the leid doun tae a bare-ba
3 matches

Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
haes anely pronoonciation an vocabular different fae anes i' Roushie
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@billykayscot we maun hae ae vocabular an lexicon o modern polemical(2020)
Scots is hae the richt/eneuch vocabular tae talk aboot the leid itsel(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
udyin Scots hes eikit til his vocabular an made him mair skeilie i En
1 matches

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