A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

connotations Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.6 0 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences97 0 0 2 0 0
Number of authors8 6 2

Occurrences of connotations in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
hiv aw goat totally different connotations fae each ither, an could aw b on page vi

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
hrase 'go a walk' hus certain connotations. Lassies like that yi hud don on page 41

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
cular trauchlesome or comedic connotations in Scotland.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
glish but taen on scunnersome connotations alang the wey, and is aft yai
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
faur less fu tent o the wider connotations o whit he is sayin..an sicwye(2020) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
r' haein positive or negative connotations dependin oan where ye're fae.(2018) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
, but these days the word has connotations of warmth and cooriein in. Ah (2019) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
connotations nae laetter as trowe da 14t on page 102

1 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
ns, maks me gaff wi de online connotations ??(2020) search twitter

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