A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

similarities Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 2.1 3.2 0 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences84 2 0 1 1 0
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of similarities in Corpus

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Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
ubmissions ingaithered is the similarities
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
ital, there wis a guid puckle similarities an aw. Nice,
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
There are similarities in the way chattin Patois in
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
ls wi poems 49 and 89 – tae similarities wi the poetry o twa male poet
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ee differences in fowk, anely similarities. Jenny Sangster pued daffies
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
orthumbrian leid retains mair similarities wi Doric than even border Sco (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ed! Aa dis forms o Scots haes similarities wan wye or da tidder.(2021) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
meanin... as ye mentioned the similarities between three countries. a hu(2020) search twitter