A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'vowel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vowelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus26.88916
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 226.7 39 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
SEC - (South) East Central 21.9 9 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 49.9 38 10
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 vowel in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
h. Whit odds dey ir atween da vowel soonds is maed bi cheingin da on page 23
it dey caa a clossmid roonded vowel, an phonetically da onli diff on page 24
i syllable at its hert haes a vowel or a soond at's laek a vowel on page 27
eral rules is tae shaa a lang vowel wi a : (as in /a:/). Twartree on page 28
grapheme. Fir example, a lang vowel is shaan wi dat vowel graphem on page 32
Also on pages 59, 63, 72, 73, 78, 80
36 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
acteristics of the Shetlandic Vowel System’ in Scottish Languag
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
ird sarts wi a consonant or a vowel: a aple, a bottle. Da wird or

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
dey kaa a "kloss-mid roonded vowel", an phonetically da onn'y di

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Thochts o Speakin Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2001) Central, prose
oot richt tae the hinnermaist vowel. Tae thaim the wis juist eneu
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
"-ie" at the end o wirds whan vowel harmony's applied, an itherwi
tae lairn maist Scots bairns, vowel harmony bein restrickit, as f
onal spellins. Tho tradition, vowel harmony an morphology disna a
ing (earlier than that of the Vowel-length Rule) of vowel 7 to fi
-length Rule) of vowel 7 to fields vowel 15 in fit '
8 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
w the words that startet wi a vowel. So fur instance, Shut yir ug on page 17

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
w the words that startet wi a vowel. So fur instance, Shut yir ug
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
n Glesea in their droves. The vowel soonds ae Glaswegian, mebbe i on page vi

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Standard English (usually the vowel sound), generally have the sa on page 18
erbs is makkit bi chengin the vowel athin the verb, for an instan on page 23
t soonds an 16 ordnar stresst vowel soonds. In Soothron tuins the on page 62
The tradeetional spellings o vowel soonds chenges gauin bi leid, on page 63
thir words keeps a kenspeckle vowel soond. (This is spellt wi the on page 64

11 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
the vowel an gaed their ways on page 50

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Vowel soonds is a bittie mair diffi
e ‘e’ pronunciation o the vowel in words like dead whaur Scot
2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t in ongauns sic as the Great Vowel Shift and the northart spreid
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
t whit haes happened tae this vowel in ither Scots wirds. Auld In
or micht no indicate a langer vowel. The verb is less straucht fo
the ithers seem tae agree on vowel quality, een tho there micht
The lest ane haes a different vowel, but that micht hae happened
aboot Auld Inglis weorc? That vowel wants tae settle doon in the
5 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ronounce the letter R efter a vowel, an sum o thaim probably yais
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
onced as mair or less ae lang vowel soond. Tak tent o the twa-syl
le, compared wi its elongatit vowel pronoonciation in English. Fo
ill soond like it has ae lang vowel in the middle, whaur an SSE s
SSE has gey kenable vowel soonds. Fur exemple, the vowe
soonds. Fur exemple, the vowel soonds in wirds sic as ‘goâ
11 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
r’. In Scots generally, the vowel sound is as aften – aiblins
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
soond dependin on the sort o vowel afore it: this is acause [x]
1 matches

@pmcm1355 tweeted
n they went through the Great Vowel Shift o the 18th century. htt (2022) twitter link
as we didnae follae the Great Vowel Shift o the 18th century. htt (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
is this tae dae wi 'the great vowel shift' the hing where Scots h (2019) twitter link

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