A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

syllable Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 3.6 1.5 0 29.1 10.3 0
Number of occurrences147 1 0 5 1 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of syllable in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
t and a nip uttering only one syllable; on page 60

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Contemplatin ivverie syllable, on page 11

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
is a lengthnin o the previous syllable, an ithers that it was a sepa on page 33

2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t endins – makkin a sindrie syllable – on the past tenses o waek
is no pronunced as a sindrie syllable.
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
wel soond. Tak tent o the twa-syllable rhotic pronoonciation o the w
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Files a syllable or twa on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
and dey in turn form wirds. A syllable is really jüst a unit o spee on page 27
n: a looder or mair prominent syllable is a stressed een (noo an age on page 29

5 matches

Southern

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Contemplatin ivverie syllable, on page 207

1 matches

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