A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

closely Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 8.7 4.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2217 3 1 0 0 1
Number of authors17 12 3 1 1

Occurrences of closely in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
atilda, wha had been listenin closely, said, "But Daddy, that's eve on page 19

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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
ickit wee een follaed Geordie closely as he crossed the room toward on page 38

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ontae the kitchen waw watched closely ower each wan o the Baudelair on page 77

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Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
guage that that like Scots is closely sib tae, an spak i the ae kin on page 107

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
weeks. This tynin o leids is closely thirled
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
: ‘That’s pure gallus’! Closely relatit is the plural form o
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Ah believe that her Patois is closely tied up wi the things an folk
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Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
winter. Mibbie if ye listened closely it wid sing a wee tune. Not t
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
utinise their ain nation ower closely, the myth wis believed.
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
cabulary and idiom. It is gey closely relatit tae ither West German
Scots and English, as closely relatit West Germanic languag
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
leid spak in Scotland. It is closely relatit tae English – baith
ed, tae, in modern Scots in a closely-relatit sense, whaur it means
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Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
s the sib thing wi twa leids, closely relatit til Roushie: Ukrainia
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ig) is a Q-Celtic leid. It is closely relatit tae the ither modern
un yin anither. Although mair closely relatit tae yin anither nor t
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st before lay-by. If you look closely you see auld bunkers and gree(2020) search twitter

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
bit. Her chin wis pressed so closely against her foot, at air wis on page 49

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Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
We a’ listened closely tae fit he’d tae say.
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Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
I looked closely at the video, but I didna ken
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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ough here comes Mimi Marwick, closely followed by The Man Wae the C on page 87

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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
shud waark closely wi' the Boord o' Ulster-Scotc on page 70

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