A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

limits Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 3.2 8 49.7 0 0 0
Number of occurrences166 5 5 0 0 0
Number of authors10 6 3 1

Occurrences of limits in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
kens ma cd collection is oaff limits. Some stubbornness oan that i on page 138

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
cupboard in the hoose wis aff limits, whit aboot the medicines his on page 26

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
tae the drink. But ah know ma limits. Da liked a drink and then so on page 9

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
A cannie. Aye there are some limits tae bein a new mannie. on page 45

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
ither o them’s packin which limits ma options fairly much tae
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ps4 anymair, im nearly at the limits of boredom so I feel your pai(2020) search twitter

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
its o it that are usually aff limits tae the general public, file on page 11

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
tae aff limits beauty. on page 8
being wrang or facin the limits o his understandin on page 23

2 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
Mulcaire, which has been aff-limits sin the Saicont Warl War and on page 124

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
Mulcaire, which has been aff-limits sin the Saicont Warl War and
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
as teknolojiecal limits. Whit wey on page 13

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
rakkan ootower the prescribed limits o yir language, as weys o pus
nguage, as weys o pushan that limits, as weys o endan that limits.
, as weys o endan that limits. Eventually, A hope, A’ll b
3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
be acceptid. But what are the limits of that acceptance? Hou wad h
1 matches

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