A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

rhetoric Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 5.1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1110 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors11 10 1

Occurrences of rhetoric 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

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
gashle yir rhetoric on page 54

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
arent. The tension atween the rhetoric, the aspirations and the real
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Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
years hing’s a bit o’ the rhetoric, cus fer maist o’ us the bi
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
onie nation, the pooer o the rhetoric o freedom bydit strang. Susta
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Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ir preservin the Union. Maist rhetoric frae ‘Aye’ voters also pr
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
iblishit trope in Renaissance rhetoric on male freenship, oor poet m
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Haddow, Kris On Times Austere, (words.krishaddow.com 2012) Central, poetry
O Maisters! Wha bleat rhetoric
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@iainnicol tweeted
aein tae hear as muckle empty rhetoric aboot “federalism”, nor as (2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
h it. Hence the nursery-slope rhetoric today - she's got tae hope t (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
s a raving loony if he thinks rhetoric like that is going to have an (2022) twitter link

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
ae haen that monie breenges o rhetoric anent whit thay micht dae for on page 5

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