A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

delete Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.1 1.5 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences106 1 1 2 0 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of delete in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
s shite that ah shid probably delete, lit auld shoppin lists and d on page 1

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Tae delete yer message eftir five days, on page 35

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
whaur aw that's needit is tae delete the text frae the text boxes
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
airn an be mair brutal wi the Delete button.
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
wis sae easily persuaded tae delete Xav's final voicemail. This C(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Ah'm nae sure aboot the x. Delete. Smiley face insteid. on page 97

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
xclamaetion mairks, than hits delete. He adds a dose o hashtags an on page 149

1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
t me posts, on here I hae tae delete an rewrite(2021) search twitter
tally their profile says they delete all tweets eftir a week ?? ht(2021) search twitter