A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'zither'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
zitherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.861
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 zither in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
sh. Bit a dallie, a horsie, a zither, this he could an did gie, wi
n he hisna learnt me play the zither he bocht me, yet, Betsy, an h
he bairn thocht on the bonnie zither that bed on tap o the press i
He hid bocht the zither durin the twa three days that
a mate tae a cauld eyrie. The zither, tho, bedd at the fit o his s
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