A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mainland Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 1.6 1.6 69.6 46.5 0 0
Number of occurrences193 1 7 8 0 0
Number of authors12 2 1 3 6

Occurrences of mainland in Corpus

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Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
e maist Nor-Westerly o aa the mainland Pictish staudin stanes. The F
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ak fleeces tae be selt on the mainland, giein thaim e'en mair profit
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
g aw the regional bye-leids o mainland Scots an the regional diffren
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Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ke a island bit jined tae the mainland," said Farquhar wi Hielan Pri on page 99

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Akimbo in the West Mainland winter, An disappeared. on page 6

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Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
reformation in the East Mainland wis nutheen short on page 7

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Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
ently these days, in the West Mainland, present me wae a dilemma.
or less completely extinct in Mainland noo. Wance, aboot ten year ag
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Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
oy o country life in the West Mainland. A merlin crosses a field in
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Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
tae his new hoose in the West Mainland in the late eighties he hid a
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@peediepuss tweeted
¶n, hairst blinks etc. On the mainland it's an Orcadianised form of (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Gunnister or Hamar i da Nort Mainland, an it's nivver a sea a purpl on page 91

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
rang trade atween Shetland an mainland Scotland, an firbye dat wi da on page 10
eparate plaesses o da British mainland: da Jutes gied tae whit's noo on page 14

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Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
n on wan dialect - a central Mainland ene, say - an dat ene wid co
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Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: A Hamefarin hero, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
An wi bein dat far awa fae da mainland, dey could git awa wi takin d
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@HazelTindall tweeted
Anidder bleak day for da nort mainland.(2020) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
olinerobot I actually bide on mainland scotland noo but grew up on m (2020) twitter link

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