A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spellcheck Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 0 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences64 0 0 0 0 2
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of spellcheck in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
went into overdrive trying to spellcheck the e-mail. My brain went num
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Scotland-specific wird until spellcheck skelps it wi a squiggly wee r
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ckle ither thing tae lowp (no Spellcheck nae Leonard, Richard or ony i(2020) search twitter
body please screive ae Scots SpellCheck or Autocorrect program!(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
"Spellcheck" an Scrabble - baith tae bla (2014) twitter link
LillyBynn Aye, Billy, the aul spellcheck aye changes oor Ulster Scots: (2015) twitter link