A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dared Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.6 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences119 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors9 7 1 1

Occurrences of dared in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wha dared tae luik like on page 50

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Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
he square. The sodger wha had dared tae luve a princess wis led t on page 46

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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ven in their darkest moments, dared contemplate they’d wan day
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
oody swines. They widnae’ve dared years ago cos they’d huv go
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
It’s the first time we’ve dared step foot ootside together. H
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Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
red finger, while her parents dared tae wonder if, finally, she h
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Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
That he dared na breathe a word eh.
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Facebook link ( 2021) Central
s haurly ony air. Nae that ye dared gasp fur the stink wis awfy w

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
An then ah dared tae ask if ah cud aise the to

Doric

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
the middle of the wids and we dared each ither tae bide the nicht
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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
r Dursley wondered whether he dared tae tell her he’d heard the
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