A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

formality Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of formality in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
The audition is really jist a formality, ah overheard her tellin Lins on page 169

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
in terms o a scale o flittin formality fae ‘ae’ doon tae ‘wanâ
sits richt on the cusp atween formality and informality, and is frequ
2 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
aa'd me in fur interview - a formality, I guess. on page 69

1 matches

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