A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

offspring Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0.5 4.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences51 3 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 1 3 1

Occurrences of offspring in Corpus

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Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
(often applied to ungreatful offspring), 'raise crows and the will t(2020) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Will you leave any offspring when you die? Neen that I ken on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
aborted. If 'twis braw, their offspring wad gae intil the hatchery al
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
e to Greece at moment Boris's offspring awa ti see granda Stan(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Good to see one of Trump's offspring turned up to cheer the SDLP r(2019) search twitter