A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

comments Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words21 26.1 14.4 0 11.6 43.7 4.4
Number of occurrences6549 9 0 2 4 1
Number of authors32 19 6 2 4 1

Occurrences of comments 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

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
im at the culture-points, His comments taen as crits; on page 22

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
it easier. Ye cin imagine the comments fae the ither lot, mainly Gla on page 50

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ene. Shut up, ah said, Naebdy comments on whit you eat. Aye that's c on page 145
eather are always makin nasty comments aboot folk that live in Moorp on page 169

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Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ssociation scowth ti mak whit comments anent it at thay waant. Whan on page 4

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
he Lowlands-L mailin list for comments, it wis suin seen that thir w
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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Comments an complaints
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Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
Thae comments (an mony ithers o the likes)
ve forbye- an that yon wickit comments were jyst fae that ayebidan c
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Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
, Billy Kay, bein telt in the comments section o this wabsite that t
1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
some bloggers’ predictable comments aboot this in The Herald, I w
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
the bit Ken whaur a series o comments anent the warld an the warld
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
daily darg, an hoo mony that comments on this life fae afaur (he ci
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Owre hauf a million online comments,
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Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Here come the comments fae ma maw;
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@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
lass fitbaw fans at it again" comments are challenged accurately. ht (2021) twitter link

@MartinBroon tweeted
1990 Mate, listenin’ tae yer comments sent shivers doon My spine??.(2020) search twitter

@RickHJohnston tweeted
f the UK elite. Ben Wallace's comments aboot Crimea should be ringin (2022) twitter link

@OliphantWullie tweeted
@Torcuil Lookin at aw the comments below, how 's onybody tae mak (2022) twitter link
v it ! Met wi wan or twa - ve comments fae their mithers&faithers th (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
BBC pals will jist edit their comments tae suit yersels.(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rford1 a take back ma earlier comments 2 night - city were top draw (2021) twitter link
when snow falls - wonderful comments on this lol (2021) twitter link
ers noo r gods - av seen the comments - ken the types thats awe fo (2020) twitter link
yth ammys play ffs lol - ony comments on that likes? who r these pe (2020) twitter link
top notch - but some of the comments about them were not and embar (2021) twitter link
and 23 other occurrences.

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
dinna mak ony really personal comments...onythin aat micht caause of on page 57
inng mak only really personal comments...onythin aat micht caause of on page 62

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Carney, Don Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric, prose
wa thought-provokin, lingerin comments wi their ain messages. These on page 5

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Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
at this an makkin rale naisty comments aboot Douglas. Canny like Dou
1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
is noo tweetin in Scots. Ony comments maist walcome @arabstar2 @Lyn(2020) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
bit Leeds United oar Consi’s comments but being selective on fit he (2020) twitter link
BBC Scotland and Beattie’s comments this afternoon and then Maitl (2020) twitter link
@stonefish100 Some o these comments are harsh - we’re accommoda (2020) twitter link

@glenlivetloon tweeted
about women in politics. Some comments I read about you and @NicolaS(2019) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
gied her da injection. He med comments aboot her size at Smootie toc
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
story and thanks all for the comments. Good to read folks views. Aa(2018) search twitter

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
pillar's makin sie awfy nippy comments, an she drew hersel up an sai on page 44

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Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
id, an o coorse we ettle thir comments will pit fushion in her elbuc on page 5

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@officialAliRed tweeted
Thank you all for your kind comments and messages. We're "ower chu(2019) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
ictably weafu an scunnersome) comments fae Team Yoon.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
oul on til tha ganshes in tha comments see tha Psalter... https://t. (2020) twitter link