A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

discouraged Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.1 1.5 9.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences106 1 1 1 1 0
Number of authors8 4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of discouraged in Corpus

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Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ns Patois, in the main it’s discouraged in the classroom an is defini
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ug-shape! Mornin Sunshine wis discouraged - a bent haun slotchin alang
ug-shape! Mornin Sunshine wis discouraged - a bent haun slotchin alang
2 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Bit Allan wisnae ready tae be discouraged.
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
@Chazzbat Were ye discouraged at hame as weel as at schuil? (2019) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Why should I feel discouraged?
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And a peedie bit discouraged fur I thowt I'd been quite go on page 8

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
s anidder thing at his midder discouraged whin shü wis livin. on page 2

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ational Acht, they were baith discouraged or skelped oot a wheen o Scot(2020) search twitter