A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

swears Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences53 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of swears 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
Dolly never swears. This is obviously affecting on page 17

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
id's fulla mince. Her faither swears the wean is a wee bandit!' on page 80

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
prayin hard. Bettie said she swears by holy water fae Lourdes and on page 45

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
chicken wi doughboys - Sheu swears that we nivver get fed. on page 53

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
He swears he'll wipe him aff' th' earth on page 36

1 matches

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