A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

esp Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.2 4.3 1.6 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences108 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of esp in Corpus

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Central

@jax6754 tweeted
, honesty & postin on youtube esp as #Periscope isnae available(2015) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
Cannae wait tae yaise thaim, esp the Thrawn Janet n Wanderin W(2016) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ps our struggle centre-stage, esp internationally counts. (2022) twitter link

@Sinethugcat tweeted
news whilst driving anymore! Esp nowt tae dae with Scotgov... (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
laddie dived like that noo - esp if he landed on the tap o me (2020) twitter link
ed by your comments lately - esp about ur 2 best supporters of (2020) twitter link
t the east lothian courses - esp if theres fitbaw players that (2021) twitter link
whae goes around comes around esp awe the erse lickers in the s (2021) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
performance o the new players esp Stewart, Roos , Coulson and R (2022) twitter link

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ma abilities and experiences esp huvin livin’ in NI. a feel t (2021) twitter link