A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

adults Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words15.5 20.7 8 9.9 5.8 21.9 0
Number of occurrences4839 5 1 1 2 0
Number of authors27 21 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of adults in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hat this cunt is like wae nae adults aboot. Finally, we wur there, on page 195

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
d like a really guid yin that adults read. Wan that's weel kent. A on page 9

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ll ae kids kiddin on they wur adults: turnin up drunk an nippin ea on page 38
e up at ma gran's: whilst the adults wur huvin their conversations on page 56

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Whilst the adults plodded determinedly oan. on page 140

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
clessroom. They were tellt by adults that the speech they brocht f on page 8

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
rs in a twist ower fings even adults dinnae know.' on page 24

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
anny's recipe an it's fer the adults, no the bairns. (Sniffs) The on page 62
burn, but they widnae listen. Adults! They aye think they ken bett on page 70
tae tell aabody. Maist o the adults dinnae believe in it - they on page 75

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
wer; they let them sit wi the adults at the denner table and jyne on page 6

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
nteel conversation. The fower adults were gettin on like a house a on page 37

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
tae mak an teach (tae bairns: adults micht hae a haurder time wi'd
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
, the nummer owreweicht o the adults population stauns at a min-bo
. Lack o exercise amang baith adults an bairns is a muckle an verr
2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
e across hunners o bairns and adults wi stories tae tell o bullyin
Ootside schule, kids telt by adults tae speak ‘posh’ and tae
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
nic commonty languages, or as adults, speaks "ordinary" in the hoo
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
uage lessons for aw bairns an adults that want tae lairn the langu
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
’ These are the expressions adults use bit ah wis twelve n’ ah
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ally squashed between twa fat adults. Alternate picnics wid see us
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
treatment they were used tae, adults shoutin’ an’ bein’, in
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
owth o Scots fiction for yung adults. While there haes been a walc
1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Matthew Fitt: a word aboot 'bad' language, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
. It would be a lot easier if adults just said ‘Scots’ and ‘
dae they dae it? Why dae some adults no want bairns and weans and
nt bairns and weans and ither adults tae speak in Scots?
3 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ur able tae help children and adults ?(2014) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
wisna proper Inglis bi monie adults(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
A guid #Scots book fir young adults :-) https://t.co/6WCIjYO1XD (2021) twitter link
n Scots at hame, fir weans an adults: https://t.co/DZoDESvJGv #Sco (2020) twitter link
Fir adults, we hae hunners o audio files (2020) twitter link
Anither great resource fir adults is the SCOTS (Scottish Corpus (2020) twitter link
tae fun oot aboot support fir adults wantin tae lairn Scots: https (2019) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
hed this decision to shut out adults over 18 from playing football (2020) twitter link
art 2 day in england - youth/adults - it should be the same ever (2021) twitter link
@kmcall80 @Bonnyton1912 adults not allowed to stand around a (2020) twitter link
@SERegionYFA aye exactly and adults too - football is excercise (2021) twitter link
acing is a contact sport with adults over 18 - n its allowed to g (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
n tae keep them safe. For the adults, aire's aften trucks sellin r on page 5

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
on afore. It wis a feel game. Adults kent the names o aathin. Foo
him. He couldna answer back. Adults war aye richt, even fin they
2 matches

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
ither lifestyles than them as adults hae sae persistently argied i
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Widney’s Fuil, (Mak Forrit 2017) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
generation o bairns, an young adults, fa hiv nae clue aboot a sae-
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ose reid face lairn a class o adults reputaetional capietal, brand on page 41

1 matches

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Minni-Babbi, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, prose
run awa in terror, an whan da adults saa me dey wid gie me a coors
1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
ot is. 27 folk in the bar. 22 adults 5 bairns. 4 bairns on ipads a(2019) search twitter