A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'voiceless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
voicelessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7193
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 87.2 15 1
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
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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 voiceless in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
. Consonants can be voiced or voiceless: if yir vocal coards birr whi on page 25
p voiceless bilabial stop /pɛ:x/ (pech) on page 26
ymbols fir dem is /θ/ fir da voiceless soond in think (/θɪŋk/) an on page 27

15 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
the grand schame tae keep the voiceless voiceless that's allowin aw t
voiceless that's allowin aw these ither
2 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
e it: this is acause [x] is a voiceless velar fricative while [ç] is
lar fricative while [ç] is a voiceless palatal fricative.
2 matches

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