A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

negative Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.9 12.2 8 0 69.7 0 13.3
Number of occurrences4323 5 0 12 0 3
Number of authors23 18 2 2 1

Occurrences of negative in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ect Fear' (the Msm's dreichly negative 'coverage' o the Independence on page 138

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
negative vibes, these thoughts on page 98

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Business AM's negative view, on page 46

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ultural attitude chynges frae negative tae positive, the language wi on page 12

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
kers, an disappyntment at the negative affcome o the debate, we war on page 4

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
he language associated with a negative identity that links with the on page 56

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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
eety aye still haes the Scots negative encleetic –na (soondit –n
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Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
reaction, as I expectit, wis negative, but some wis gey encouragin
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
isible things, I wonder - Rh-negative blood type? Cystic fibrosis?â
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Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
cl. asylum seekers) an a mair negative wey tae deal wi the EU.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
negative pairticle ‘no’ (cf. Engli
. (In Scots, by contrast, the negative pairticles ‘no’ (and ‘n
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
lic, the wird has nae siclike negative baggage and is nae mair and n
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@jax6754 tweeted
the opportunity tae turn oor negative intae positivity an however l(2015) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
ster @d_anderson878 AÂ’m bein negative, mind. Jist, haein seen BSL i(2018) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
s I was met with a tsunami of negative replies and folk accusing me (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
onlie knappis suddrone in yer negative confession, bot also hes caus(2020) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
d 'stoater' haein positive or negative connotations dependin oan whe(2018) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
that she's getting this kinda negative publicity even ootside Scotia (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nts taken m8 - aye its a bit negative defo - strange views indeed (2020) twitter link
s it no past ur bedtime - mr negative lol (2021) twitter link
win says it awe m8 - far too negative - thank feck fir wee ryan fr (2021) twitter link
nks different - really is so negative imo - ps cheers fir the wee (2021) twitter link

Doric

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
introduction: ‘... one main negative impetus ... was the omission
ason for that negleck, the ‘negative impulse’ has gaithert a bra
2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
impact attendances. Fit aboot negative, industrial fitba? St Johnsto (2022) twitter link
oon men and fitba - cynical, negative whilst womenÂ’s fitba thrives (2022) twitter link
ay, so yir looking for a mair negative line up - cool (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
aa, baith, ivvri; dey can be negative, as in nae, on page 65
7.3 Negative sentences in Shaetlan on page 88
Wi lexical verbs da invariant negative word no is on page 89
ronoun alang wi da contracted negative on page 91
øsed in a figurative wye wi negative on page 102

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Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ta language is sometimes caad negative prestige. Da best kent exampl
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Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
ronoun alang wi da contracted negative auxiliary:
i a auxiliary inflected wi da negative suffix - (e)n:

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
rid o' the negative representations at spake tae on page 24
Oan the negative side they havnae the freedom on page 46
n the furst place. Thon bes a negative conclusion bit the submission on page 53

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