A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hardest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 5.7 7.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1711 5 0 1 0 0
Number of authors15 10 4 1

Occurrences of hardest in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
The hardest part fir Alice at first wis m on page 81

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ll wha's hert was rattlin the hardest. His against hers. Hers again on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
wae that Craig chips in "The hardest boay at the school. Far as ah on page 195

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
eh trehed meh hardest on page 67

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Rannoch wis the hardest cause we wur up an doon an up on page 143
This is one of the hardest things ah've ever had tae do, on page 157

2 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
It wis the hardest I had ever thought. How could
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
hardest stane, thae twa anachronisms
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
t centre-back, and he wis the hardest man in fitba. Hud tattoos on
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
birthday monies but tryin ma hardest tae wait till the Jan sales! (2014) search twitter

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
aiphsays Thaim that wurks the hardest ur the least provideed Raiph.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ih doar an we run oot eit wer hardest tae fresh air an saiftay. Een on page 9
a nippet oot eih door eit ma hardest, aw excitet, an we a great mu on page 31

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
d a day, but this will be the hardest entry yet... on page 89

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ble. That wiz gyan tae be the hardest bit.
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@muddy_40 That's hardest bit min(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Whit Alice fan da hardest ta start wi wis keepin doon a on page 83

1 matches

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