contraction | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 2.5 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of occurrences | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of authors | 5 | 5 |
Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
rophe comprehendit is athin a contraction (they had/they'd): on page 33
1 matches
Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
The next contraction stings mair than when ah pick on page xix
2 matches
Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
SSE and Scots ‘gonnae’; a contraction o Scots ‘gaun tae’ (going
1 matches
Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
’ is ‘wean’: at hert, a contraction o ‘wee ane’.
1 matches
@DABArbuckle tweeted
ye didnae ken 'goodbye' is a contraction o 'God be with you'. Braw pro(2020) search twitter
speaking a sentence. It was a contraction of "said I". "Sie, ye'll need(2020) search twitter