A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

direct Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.1 19.7 17.6 0 17.4 0 8.8
Number of occurrences5337 11 0 3 0 2
Number of authors29 19 8 1 1

Occurrences of direct in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
anslatit, mair ir less, intae direct Glaswegian equivalents. Bit i on page vi

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ss the wah that are yased tae direct folk tae the appropriate stor on page 121
Ma direct approach seems tae huv unnerv on page 125
pers a monstrous, ugly voice, direct in ma ear. on page 168

3 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
So fine an direct that's how we've gained on page 56

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'Importit direct fae Heedrum-Hodrumland,' said on page 79

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
tion be pit richt intae Scots direct like? Are the a better, or ma on page 5
tae keep this leid aff haes a direct affcome for thaim that maks d on page 7
e information as simple an as direct as possible. Upmakkin new, un on page 12
Mothwerwell cuid be pit ower direct like as Mitherweel, that isna on page 13

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Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
letteris of lawborrowis salbe direct in tyme cuming at the instanc on page 23

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - No Faur Frae Babel, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
"Excuse me, but could you direct me on page 84

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Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
eien as a contender. But the direct evidence frae Burns's sister on page 4

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
omplex issue wi just a couple direct wurds.
1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
attitude. Gaelic gets tocher direct fae the Scots Executive Educa
d an for that tocher tae come direct fae
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
at thae documents wis written direct intae Scots an no owersetten
charge of the Queenis grace, direct to the baillies of Mussilburg
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Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
coud afore cannily tryin tae direct the gabbin tae ony ither subj
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Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
tak awa sic opportunities for direct democracy. It's tae gie fowk
cotland, Day Wan, wad be mair direct democracy. Referendums o the
had that, gin we coud see the direct relationships atween the thin
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Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
a native dialect is the maist direct route tae communication when
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
d Scots borrae this wirdstock direct frae the French or Latin? Or
age?1 Or deed wis it by wey o direct contact wi the language o Eng
gland. This is in contrast to direct borrowing from other language
leuks like Scots haes eneuch direct Romance lendwirds for us no t
4 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
t an airt it taks ti write as direct, an as weel as this. An thon
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
current, Alternatin’ an’ Direct current. He conceptualised it
an’s free, or be blown off. Direct current oan the ithir han’
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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
s. Tae show the difference in direct quotations, offered “Ye’r
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
rn. In coorse, Latin (whither direct like or throu Frainch) an Gre
1 matches

Connelly, Gordon Celebrating Ithers, a letter tae somebody wirth celebratin, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
Speakin tae them direct will let ye be open and thank
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
wis a powerfu preacher, very direct but peruasive in his delivery

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
or sit at the shore, that is direct from our back gate, safely!(2020) search twitter
e widna swear or that that is direct paraphrase and internal wordi(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
twa hunner yairds awa, took a direct hit. She wis settlin fast in on page 41

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Carney, Don Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric, prose
articular Doric words hiv nae direct translation inti ony ither la on page 5

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ring yer bunk details fir the Direct Debit." on page 11

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Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
nglish an Literacy curriculum direct teachers tae, ‘engage with
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the table. Some o them in my direct line were pickin bits oot o t
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
spare a minute to help me by direct message with an aspect of int(2018) search twitter
Peterheid finally gets a fast direct train service tae Aiberdeen! (2018) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
@Phoenix45Blog Go direct cut them oot Hid a tattie sal(2020) search twitter
t Johnstone he canna play his direct style running at defences(2020) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
tae see fit th hudduo wiz, th direct message I wiz asked tae send (2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ject at cheinges haands is da direct object an da recipient on page 84

3 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
- Direct Study - thon can stairt wi' on page 22
apt tool es hit onie alloos a direct owresettin o' the Inglis naim on page 50

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