A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sur Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.2 10.3 0 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences2320 0 0 0 0 3
Number of authors12 11 1

Occurrences of sur in Corpus

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Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
nd's reid an yin end's bleck, Sur!' replied Jockie. on page 22

4 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
"Aw, sur!" Cherlie wad gae, ettlin tae on page 26

1 matches

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
vit efter a visit tae Oradour-Sur-Glâne, France whaur oan the on page 61

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
caa back the nicht efter the sur techt they've had this day. on page 53

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
sur o yill? on page 14

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
"B-but Sur" Ian managed to stutter, "I'v on page 97

1 matches

Durie, Nick A Scots Letter, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Glasgow, prose
attered kis we a need tae mak sur wur leid disna suiffer the fa
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
(1657-1757) cryed Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes (168
1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
“Skint ma nose, sur.”
bumped ma nose in the sheuch, sur.”
bumped ma heid in the sheuch, sur.”
3 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
have the len’ o’ a ba’, Sur?” A’d give them one wi’
rney. “Can we have a ba’, Sur?” “Surely your no’ goin
hae got tae hae their Fitba, Sur!” “Ok, here ye are bit mi
couldni’ mind whit ye sid, Sur. Sae A thocht if ye hit him w
4 matches

Eunson, Catherine Freude, (The Scores 2020) Central, poetry
de Fleurs, sur la plus belle place du monde
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
sie anent the rain “Il pleut sur la ville comme il pleure dans(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Weel said, Sur! We need mair folk spakin the (2014) twitter link
Quare an weel, Sur! Aa tha best tae yersel! (2016) twitter link
Soond advice, sur! https://t.co/qugmXVBpwG (2014) twitter link