A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

average Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 8.7 10.6 0 11.6 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences2817 7 0 2 1 1
Number of authors21 13 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of average in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
stem is designed tae keep yur average heterosexual boay doon. on page 60

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
cafés - places whaur the average portion wuid fleg the life oo on page 56

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
clever, but ah've always been average - or worse. Fur aw ah'm conv on page 26
ut ah've never been mair than average. on page 36
Ah'm average. Ah've tired ma absolute best on page 45

4 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ee, middlin-sized basket, yet average, muckle kind o basket, fou o on page 78

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
z truthfully no too far above average. To pander to his love of wur
1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
We are just the average normal sisters though I suppo
1 matches

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
ye caw things, stuff that the average person might forget fae time
1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
r up the imaginations o, your average punter. He remerkit in 1795:
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
I’m jalousin your average punter, e’en if they’r a
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
mare pin holes in it than yer average tea bag, an a pair ay maroon
1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
r tae Kat that Doug wisna yer average cyberdug.
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
n aulder lady and they hud an average blether aboot the rain and th
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ing that way myself ??. Still average about 40hrs a week tho ??(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ted. She'll be playing to the average member now, knowing that her (2022) twitter link

Doric

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
wad pey jist unner £2000 on average. In the siller o the day, tha
shy o £60,000. Nooadays, the average price o a hoose in Scotland i
e fitsteps o Denmark, far the average warkin wik is aboot five oors
3 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
t least 3/4 times that of yir average SPFL boss - We’re bored of (2021) twitter link
ncan Mair face masks than yir average supermarket though. Went inta (2020) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ocked back Sunderland who get average home attendance of 45k & Rang(2017) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
bertkreischer Looks like your average Hogmanay in parts o Aberdeen.(2019) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
contrastive soonds at maks da average body, nivver leetin whaar in on page 22

1 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
As da average batch o street cocaine,
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
eh. Guid tae see it reach an average Killie attendance ?? Great jo(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
g words in thon tweet for the average @SpindependentIE reader, like(2017) search twitter