A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

borrowin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1 0 0 11.6 0 4.4
Number of occurrences52 0 0 2 0 1
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of borrowin in Corpus

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Central

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Borrowin ma View on page 129

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
it juist a case o compulsorie borrowin frae the defender; that is ti on page 25

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
wi da spedd, so dey wid start borrowin oot muck in February, an dell on page 7

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
t's da first o 2 choices o Da Borrowin Days (da next comin in April,(2015) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ar I aye wunnered if it was a borrowin fae the Erse: nae doobt there (2014) twitter link