A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

half-past Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0.5 3 9.9 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences71 2 1 1 0 2
Number of authors5 1 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of half-past in Corpus

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Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
eep by noo, tae, cause it wis half-past eleeven at nicht. Ah made ma
1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
lock leck e twinkle o an eye! Half-past wan, time for denner!" on page 67
: "boot ee could keep id till half-past wan as long as ee lekd." on page 68

2 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
e nearly teatime till weel by half-past nine on page 14

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
nds o da clock birlin aroond! Half-past wan, time for denner!" on page 72

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
goes the clock in a twenklin! Half-past yin, dunner tim!" on page 71

2 matches

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