A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

couldn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 7.2 6 19.9 17.4 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2414 4 2 3 0 1
Number of authors17 7 4 2 3 1

Occurrences of couldn in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ppened exactly, Mr McGiver? I couldn't get a straight answer out o on page 54

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
heart rate increased and she couldn't make eye contact and this i on page 1

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Charlene said tae tell yi she couldn't wait so she's away wi Laura on page 49
ere am ah supposed tae go. Ah couldn't give a flyin monkey, said M on page 169

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'I couldn't get through this,' he wrote on page 25

1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Kimberley couldn’t do my hair, she’s not w
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
en an elephant - I mean, you couldn’t keep an elephant in that
“Couldn’t you at least have smoothe
hen it was getting dark and I couldn’t find you ... am I out of
3 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
g ma commas and block me so I couldn't reply, it wis a tad over th(2020) search twitter
ocketGothic @OneFatNinjaCat I couldn't go near it, thing freaked m(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"No...no... I couldn't." Tamara's face wis as lang on page 75

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
n loon telt me. A teuchter fa couldn't drive a tractor ??(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
blood on it. At the outset, I couldn't get tested anywhere. First (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
Spanish lad phoning in cos he couldn't get here without quarantine(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ld killer. Tell her...' Bit I couldn't hear any more for she was l on page 20

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tae the centre." "But then I couldn't see! And I stayed on the gr on page 107

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
huge mushroom theyd found. I couldn't believe it when the boys ca on page 9

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
"Not that you couldn't have the other girl as well on page 35

1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
dwifeodanort Jason was, if he couldn't see the lights then fair en (2018) twitter link

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
n inclement weather or when I couldn’t borrow the car - “weel, (2020) search twitter