A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

abstain Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.7 1.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of abstain in Corpus

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Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
a party that were ordered tae abstain when given a chance tae feed (2020) search twitter
law decreeing that MPs cannae abstain fae voting. They're paid tae (2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
either side wae the Tories or abstain fae every important issue aff(2021) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
aye a ken - mind u kin aways abstain if eer no sure! (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
n hoo they voted; an did they abstain; or did they record their dis on page 8

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