A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'voluntary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
voluntaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6125
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 90.1 9 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of voluntary 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.

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
nsciously, in shock at Iona's voluntary offer. Iona points tae a wee on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
taunart Inglis was adoptit be voluntary langage shift, involvin the r
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
ity as weel as their non-paid voluntary wark wi the centre. Ane o wir
1 matches

General Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
personal lif' ir in business, voluntary, commonity ir public service on page 8

5 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ural lif' bes delivered oan a voluntary basis wi' fowk, on page 13
the Norlin Airlan Cooncil fer Voluntary Ection). The on page 37
lster-Scots culture daeins ir voluntary. on page 39

4 matches

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