Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dominant	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.2	7.7	1.5	29.8	5.8	0	0
Number of occurrences	20	15	1	3	1	0	0
Number of authors	11	7	1	2	1

Occurrences of dominant in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
schuil lot that hid aye been dominant til then, The strangulated to on page 48
s' schuil o historie his been dominant fer a lang, lang time nou, an on page 59
uppie-tappie alang ahent the dominant thinkin o 'the British wey o on page 99
-poleetical organisation. The dominant idea wis that, seein as democ on page 104

4 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
e-by-side wi anither ane mair dominant. In turn, ither language comm on page 10

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ld an ill-faured tae uise the dominant leid in a fameiliar settin (r on page 56

3 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
there’s the first Evan, the dominant of the two. Evan Evans wiz hi
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e registers whaur it is maist dominant, therefore presents a parteic
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
irmed as by faur Scotland’s dominant political force. The victorie
o the SNP remains politically dominant eneuch tae try an create thae
2 matches

wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
s be dauntened in fauvour o a dominant, staundartised English, (Samu
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
n, Gaelic wis owertaen as the dominant leid o the realm by Scots, th
e ae side, baith has been the dominant leid o Scotland at sindry pyn
2 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
knott girse, a weed that wis dominant lang
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
guages closs tae the globally-dominant Engliesh: hid’s hou tae mak
aenges an interactions wi the dominant tongue. Bit hid is tae say at
2 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
etheen like 'pleece' ,wae yin dominant 'o' taen oot aaltaegither. (2021) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ed bi da Norwegian king an da dominant language ithin baith Shetland on page 15

1 matches