A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

provoking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences41 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of provoking in Corpus

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
what inspired such a thought-provoking piece of writing? on page 57

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Doric

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 jist pit provoking msg on FB ..... ye must go li(2012) search twitter

@glenlivetloon tweeted
fower o ye! Brilliant thocht provoking blether. A weel deserved dram(2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
This is a thought provoking cracker in guid Scots brogue (2020) twitter link