A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'webster'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
websterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
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 webster in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
A couple o days later Doctor Webster stood in Mary’s room shakin
treating and hid died. Doctor Webster dichtin his een turned tae se
the pauper’s coffin. Doctor Webster nearly exploded wi anger an r
3 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
aboot it, an the vet, an Tam Webster, an Stan Miller, an Abbie Gre on page 107

1 matches

General Northern

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
The (recently departed) Jack Webster seemed to reckon ‘HendersonÂ(2020)

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
ord is whiles: sometimes. Rev Webster, kennt as Dr Bonum Magnum in (2020)