A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gotta Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 3.6 4.5 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences137 3 0 1 0 2
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of gotta in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
that shiz still gotta dae, on page 67
A soul that's gotta be found on page 77

2 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
rips right oot ay him. ‘You gotta just take a chill pill, y’k
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
doon tae past anterior subj (gotta love the sinder Port vbs - l(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ashwilsonauthor snap lol - gotta let aff sum gass m8! (2021) twitter link
berry is called erchie btw - gotta luv thae gadgies wae the long (2021) twitter link
gotta b a wee trip tae the toni mac (2021) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An aa I gotta be is packed naturally on page 97

3 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@HollieB ?? I do. Gotta be able to print off d&d shee (2021) twitter link

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
You gotta give to thon Yank. He can hat(2019) search twitter
oy1916 @lanPaisleyMP Hope you gotta a good price for thon poster?(2020) search twitter