A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

seyins Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 3.1 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences66 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 2

Occurrences of seyins in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Weel we aw ken a wheen auld seyins an ane o the best kent gans s on page 32

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
o hes ceenical auld faither's seyins: on page 19

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ences are biggit), and idiom (seyins, specific yaise o wirds, etc)
Idioms/seyins
has monie distinct idioms and seyins, monie o which come fae Scots
but no Scots, yaises siclike seyins, they are yaisin Scots in the
4 matches

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