A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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actors Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.3 16 0 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences3230 0 2 0 0 0
Number of authors16 14 2

Occurrences of actors in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
cast includit a wheen o Unity actors, the likes o Marjorie Thomson on page 39
wheen o fowk includin makars, actors an critics argied that he wis on page 40

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Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
t was first thocht o tae help actors get the richt accent fan they on page 87

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McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
wi blinks o ither actors' lauchter, tears. on page 16

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Actors and audience like barf in yer on page 45
Wi actors muivements aw merkit oot in c on page 53

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
k he'd been readin, "a load o actors pit on a on page 87
tottie lichts sae's the actors could see better tae pit on t on page 135
The actors breenged oot o the room, and on page 138
means "actors and stagehaunds rinnin aboot on page 139
ns oot ontae the stage. Ither actors were millin aboot, findin the on page 141
Also on pages 142, 144, 146, 157
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
tae hear amateur reciters an actors ca'in a trade baith makkin a
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
, an in the follaein decades. Actors an producers becam raiglar ve
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ts both as ‘exercise’ for actors in speaking Classical Scots,
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
r William Wallace, kenspeckle actors the likes o Sir Sean Connery
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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
by junk an played oot by the actors in its puppet theatre, tether
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
lippenin performances bi the actors o the Nutshell Theatre Compan
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
OTE: a photograph here of the actors performing 'The Emperor's New
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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Maist actors
fir actors an
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Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
nveniently vague an yaised by actors across the political spectrum
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
maist o the 'cultural' folk, actors, comedians, artists, writers (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
Thur's no mony Scots actors wha cin sustain an American a(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
e Radio Orkney recordeen. And actors Dawn Copland and Julie Tait c on page 34

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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
m – in a country whar young actors aal too often hiv tae ape the
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