Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

shouldn	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.1	3.6	3	0	5.8	0	0
Number of occurrences	10	7	2	0	1	0	0
Number of authors	8	5	2		1

Occurrences of shouldn 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'A woman of your age shouldn't be behaving like that, c'mo on page 8
or, but this isn't right. Men shouldn't compete against women in sp on page 12

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have a home of your own -
ll turnt tae Beatrice. “You shouldn’t have gone to all this tro
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
wouldn’t, don’t, won’t, shouldn’t). (Tak tent forby o SSE a
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
likes of him and Attenborough shouldnt grow auld ????(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
???? Mrs Hs input.. Well, you shouldn't have made so many.. Talk ab (2023) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
o Does that mean Miller et al shouldnt count appearances against (2020) twitter link

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
with his wife. If ever a man shouldn't wear a kilt, it's him. Fit (2022) twitter link

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
ve her a small allowance, she shouldn't be very demanding... or bri on page 35

1 matches