A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

demands Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.8 9 3.2 0 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences2117 2 0 0 0 2
Number of authors16 13 1 2

Occurrences of demands 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

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
are tae hear, aw the fashious demands for siller, the scauls an the on page 133

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ae Embro an lat their peacefu demands afore the King's Privy Counci on page 26

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
st jumps up fae the flair and demands tae ken: "Who fuckin said tha on page 42
he said. "He shouts at me and demands answers I don't have." The br on page 55

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Demands which the Tories said went to on page 64

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Him that demands twa maiks aff yer een, a bawb on page 75

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McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
the Provost thocht. "Sae Weir demands ah send on page 112

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Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Thi Leerie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
or thi demands o ill-lippet koonsuls, on page 93

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ony haurder than the langage demands.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ent last week, ane o the heid demands wis juist that the Executive
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Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
aid ‘’He shouts at me and demands answers I don’t have’’.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
in register when the occasion demands it. As Liz Lochhead says, "Li
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Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Donna no so much suggests, as demands.
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
k. Sae gin ye hae ony special demands for yer walfare an comfort, y
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
, and richt idiomatic yaisage demands a deep and nearhaun intuitive
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Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
mak Scotland cow tow tae his demands. It hud been goin on fur year

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ook inside the box?’’ she demands.
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Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
some mait tae me?" He asks an demands
sie's hame help appeared. She demands." Jonsar jist stop
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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
t a wheen o' the lang stannin demands o' the Ulster-Scots revival. on page 14

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@OrangRuth tweeted
y Row with their unquenchable demands. #ChimpScum(2019) search twitter

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