A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

shouldn't Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences53 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of shouldn't in Corpus

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Central

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

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

Doric

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
with his wife. If ever a man shouldn't wear a kilt, it's him. Fit a (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 bring on page 35

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