A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

diction Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.6 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences97 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of diction in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
airry the weicht o the raised diction needit fir the choric role, w on page 40
restigious scrievin an raised diction hid tae be in English. A hid on page 44

4 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
thae days, maistly in poetic diction;
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
f distinctive formal Latinate diction which [Scots] did not share w
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
in their ain gate wi spellin, diction an idiom (no that there’s n
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
e puddock stuil metres fir Ye diction that lowps frae ma ain mankit on page 3

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
wustit aw his mainners an his diction on page 139

1 matches

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