A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contests Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.5 0 9.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences63 0 1 0 0 2
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of contests in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Cause A'm pauchelt fae thae contests oot ae ma league, on page 12

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Trivial seaboard contests pass the time, on page 20

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Trivial seaboard contests pass the time,
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Fur talent contests, yards o ale and bonnie babie on page 29

1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
pits oan a wheen o' pipe ban' contests on page 44

2 matches

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