A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bilingual Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.9 11.8 7.5 0 40.7 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences3823 5 0 7 2 1
Number of authors24 15 4 2 2 1

Occurrences of bilingual in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ye'd best no cry yersel 'bilingual'. on page 12

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ts an English are, in effeck, bilingual. Bilingualism, faur frae bein on page 11
(Eds.) Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education (1995). Multilingua on page 24

2 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
ch as opposed tae the current bilingual approach. on page 6

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
again hit cams in haundy bein bilingual. on page 4

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Dept. of Chinese and Bilingual Studies on page 33

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
saftware package, guidance on bilingual signs an oncome o
an bilingual education oot-throu primary,
micht weel be trilingual, no bilingual, for in
for aw that. A literate bilingual capacity that is no nurtured
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
at they're quite happy tae be bilingual in thair ain form o Scots (be
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
groups hae a bilingual tak?
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t men o the period was snodly bilingual in Laitin an Inglis an aften
1 matches

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
doon o things. The runnin o a bilingual government is a hard eneuch b
1 matches

Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
they ken we are at least that bilingual. Ye can see hoo its makin Sco
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
cht or nine year auld, an wis bilingual. Eftir an accident wi a parac
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
airsels, an I dinna mean thon bilingual pun ye juist missed gin ye’
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
o English) is twa-leidit, or bilingual, in the twa languages o Scots
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
4 matches

@annieones tweeted
n it, its in oor blood. We're bilingual. (2021) twitter link

Doric

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
maun be recognised for being bilingual an win the chaunce tae develo
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
lish? Ah div baith sae she is bilingual! http://t.co/Ons4hayeQt(2015) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
canna spik e Doric, it's nae bilingual!! https://t.co/NJsdKVt145(2018) search twitter
multinational company gettin' bilingual.(2019) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
, spik Scots, it’s guid, yer bilingual (or soon w (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
lish. Aa Shaetlan spaekers is bilingual wi English. Hits main ancesto on page 7
a start Shetland cam tae be a bilingual plaess wi Scots an Norn. Da t on page 15
Shetland is noo a bilingual community in English an Shaet on page 16
e seen aareidy, dis primer is bilingual wi Shaetlan as da deafult, an on page 21
Shetland is a bilingual community at's bøn formally on page 36

6 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
st Koen Zondag’s comment on bilingual education in Friesland:
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hev, lang-sin-syne becum, ae bilingual societie i.e. Scots/Eng an Ga
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
uatter o byleids. Syne yer no bilingual Ah jaloose ye'll no ow (2020) twitter link

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
rilingual yins inaboot Derry. Bilingual yins in Ards were wheeked doo (2017) twitter link