A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

retro Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.5 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences63 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of retro in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
us, Dougie. He’s modellin a retro Hibs toap and matchin light g
1 matches

@LowEndJardo tweeted
ost slim av ever been n aw ma retro football tops finally fit me (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
niac a luv lookin back at the retro stuff fae fitbaw clubs n aye (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ktail fir a lang time...very 'retro'. on page 28

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
mmy smile as she waatched the retro-font lyrics slide up the scre
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
em, an yaps aboot the tarf an retro chairm o astro-industrial ark on page 72

1 matches

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