A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

differs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.6 17 0 19.9 29.1 0 0
Number of occurrences3932 0 2 5 0 0
Number of authors13 12 1 1

Occurrences of differs in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
oondin coonty ae Lanarkshire, differs mainly fae ither Scots dialec on page v

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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
an hame, haudin on about wee differs nae ither bodie wad hae gien on page 26

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Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Nae kinks or differs on page 17

1 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
chapter on the wey that Scots differs fae English. Scotspeak is due on page 87

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
lp ye in yer veage throu thir differs. on page 7
in hauns wi the action. This differs fae the passive voice whaur t on page 11
n wi ane anither nor thay hae differs. Thir differs shuid be celebr on page 15
d in Soothron, untentie o the differs we find in Scots gremmar, can on page 21
cots haes a nummer o regional differs athort the tradeetional diale on page 40

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
otland, types o hoosin - the differs atween nobles an ordnar fowk on page 110

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
na practical: the'r ower mony differs atween dialecks, an forby aa
The'r muckle differs in the soondins o the various
le feck o dialecks, the'r aye differs atween the dialecks that's ai
k/folk, bowk/boak, powny/pony differs that as faur as A can think,
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Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
spaekers jalouses what kittle differs their can be atween some Scot
e Scots wirds, aither wi thae differs bein scomfished in the soonds
Pullin awa fae verb/noun differs nou, the'r anither distinctio
The'r a fair number o differs atween the Scots forms o stra
no tae tak tent o aa thae wee differs, every ane giein ye anither g
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ttish variety o English (that differs fae the suddroun in a puckle
oun in a puckle respecks, but differs nochttheless) precisely wi th
2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
y wi a fouth o ither verbs at differs frae English: finnd, fand, fu
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e. The fact that Ulster Irish differs substantiously frae dialects
t interest aften stresses the differs atween it an Central Scots ra
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
occurs in Feed my Lambs which differs fae the ither plays in haein
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
odren context. As weel as the differs in the wirds theirsels, note
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
omed wi Ceolbeg. This version differs a bittie fae the text, an twa
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Olaf is aye a kord wi voltage differs, atmospheric jabble, mairjins on page 24

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Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
trainan me lugs tae hear the differs atween dialects an figure hou
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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
I tink da wird ‘dialect’ differs fae da wird ‘Shaetlan’, I
se.’ Nottice at dae’r twa differs here. First, da phonology o d
andard English, ene. Da onnly differs is ‘aa’ for ‘all’, an
o were.’ In idder wirds, da differs is onnly i da pronunciation.
ch language’, we can see da differs in approtch atween plaeces wh
5 matches

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