A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

meanings Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.6 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences97 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of meanings in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
s o Scots that haes different meanings fae thair leeteral owersettin on page 5
ords in Staundart Soothron wi meanings that's awthegither different. on page 19
been weel in haun settin the meanings o Soothron an Spainish atween on page 34

4 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
he owthor haudin furth on the meanings o sindry words insertit amang on page 110

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
n ever so slightly individual meanings fir each. Nichols didni wish
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
often in strikingly different meanings, with examples including: liq
1 matches

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Meanings o a puckle surnames o the nor (2020) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ress). You're right about the meanings! Heelster-gowdie great too, a(2020) search twitter