A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

relative Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 9.8 1.5 0 40.7 20.7 0
Number of occurrences2919 1 0 7 2 0
Number of authors16 10 1 3 2

Occurrences of relative in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Michael Scot as a relative! And colleague! Think it thro on page 8

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
tit as thir terms is vague an relative. 'A wee whilie syne' micht re on page 11

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
are awa tae stey wi a distant relative o yours that bides on the ith on page 14
this Coont Olaf is yer anely relative that bides onywhaur in this c on page 15
them on the train tae anither relative. on page 65
ll. Ye've tae be taen in by a relative. The nicht, ye'll bide wi me on page 160
an unkent fate wi some unkent relative. They didnae unnerstaun it, b on page 162

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
our selection was governed by relative historical importance and the on page 130

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Paternal genome drap-oot forders altruism in stieve populations, (Wiley Online Library 2022) Central, prose
GD forders altruistic ongauns relative tae the ither inheritance see
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
r year syne we actually hae a relative fouth o soorces for him. In t
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
. Guid fishin, guid fermin an relative safety.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
’s closin the gap doon, his relative fitness tae the junkie’s sm
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
he girl. Ah hung aroon in the relative safety o’ the doonstairs do
1 matches

Lehane, Matt Gif I was, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
entific doubt an gie aabody a relative view
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
a relatively popular leader (relative tae Labour’s, oniewey, gin
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Allan mulled the relative merits o the twa names. ‘We
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
d the yaise o ‘that’ as a relative pronoon, includin fur people
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Sangster bein her anely close relative ayont Brian, the blythe coupl
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
dey hae a box fur me? Dir nae relative gyaain ta dee an laeve me ... on page 22

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
element an indicates a (kent) relative plaess: upbye 'up (over) ther on page 38
8 Relative clauses in Shaetlan on page 97

4 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
er language. Hit’s a purely relative term, at onnly comes ta be re
€˜fock’, an ‘whit’ as a relative pronoun - at’s nedder trad
2 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Ae Geordie Byres (nae relative o Robbie Byres) wis herd it M
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