A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

distinction Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 11.3 0 9.9 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences2722 0 1 4 0 0
Number of authors15 11 1 3

Occurrences of distinction in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
air lug fae the Msm anent the distinction atween whit he cried 'settler on page 73

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Here, an in Ireland. An wi distinction. on page 112

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
oun - ing(e) inflection. This distinction has noo collapsed but, fae th on page 17

1 matches

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Kenspeckle Man, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
imprint o unique distinction,
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
better no tae try an mak the distinction aa the time in the orthograph
r diminutives, a bonny eneuch distinction.
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
ther example o this verb/noun distinction is "love" (noun) an "loo" (ve
Whiles a distinction's fand in ae dialeck that's j
un differs nou, the'r anither distinction maun be made wi this "stap" s
"bus stop" an aa, an losses a distinction weel uphauden in the spoken l
paek an traditional texts the distinction isna aye richt claer, a write
5 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
is hersel an academic o great distinction. I am black-affrontit that he
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ean languages whaur there nae distinction drawn atween the official lan
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
institutions, wi nae distinction on grunds o the political sta
distinction o ony kind, sic as race, colo
Mair, nae distinction shal be made on the grunds o
e the law and entitelt wi nae distinction tae equal beilding o the law.
4 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
leck (a meaninless linguistic distinction) chiefly comprised o wurds th
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
hur hero. They hud the unique distinction o bein allooed tae cairry arm
The Cameronians served wi distinction in whit became the British ar

Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
ost ablo), the this/that/thon distinction, lost in staundard Inglis, th
staundard Inglis, the ane/ae distinction, an ithers) an lea aw melt va
2 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The tailors o distinction fur Orcadian men and boys. on page 46

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
essee forms haes a politeness distinction firbye: du is da hame-aboot f on page 54

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
e wir spaekin in Shaetlan, da distinction atween dialect an language di
s a artefact o translation, a distinction at onnly appeared whin you wi
2 matches

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