A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

aginst Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 4.8 3.2 0 0 87.5 0
Number of occurrences199 2 0 0 8 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of aginst in Corpus

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Central

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
aginst ma table-end. on page 12
- No doot it wuid be aginst the rules. But gin we tak ten on page 19

2 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
aginst the same challenges
aginst some
2 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
. YOUR Lord and Masters voted aginst it. Pack yer bags.(2020) search twitter
ba players banned fae playing aginst Wales because they attended a(2020) search twitter
ae an English boarding skuill aginst yer wishes, hence the accent.(2020) search twitter
ng him on" by actively voting aginst his appeal tae feed poor, hun(2020) search twitter
a 'Dougie vaccine' tae guard aginst contamination fae aw the shit(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
An bashed his heid aginst a waa, on page 30

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
t pie and bovril. Hink it wis aginst Dundee. Yir an affa Chiel #do(2019) search twitter

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Aginst threi tongues th'gither? on page 5
emme o croquet she was playin aginst hersel, fur this curious bair on page 14
e, she funnd hur heid pressin aginst th ceilin, an hed tae stoop t on page 33
fect o lyin doon wi yin elbow aginst th door, an th ither airm cur on page 34
lice's elbow was pressed hard aginst eet, that attempt proved a fa on page 35
Also on pages 41, 50, 56
8 matches

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