A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

theres Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words34.9 50.5 12.8 0 0 10.9 17.7
Number of occurrences10895 8 0 0 1 4
Number of authors11 3 4 1 3

Occurrences of theres in Corpus

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Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Theres nae doot some puirly fowk wi
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
An' though theres a gap tae yir right,
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ajmc1066 theres an excuse fir mr p but am sho (2021) twitter link
outlaw fitbaw matches - noo theres an idea (2021) twitter link
@AlisterWhite where theres a will theres a way ali - n (2020) twitter link
- this is what happens when theres a lack oh grassroots football (2021) twitter link
1867 @NormanMurray10 @HaddAth theres a surprise (2020) twitter link
and 80 other occurrences.

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Doric Gruffalo's Bairn, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1785300691) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Theres a freen o mine that ye hinna on page 21

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
grass isna iwis greener, and theres something aboot buckie that m

@daleser23 tweeted
oot gan doon for the weekend. Theres sumin on the sunday ina i thn(2013) search twitter
@Poppy_Totti aye i herd theres a few folk gan oot. Ana think(2013) search twitter
ay6 @MikeyForbes1 i dina thnk theres a word in the dictionary to d(2014) search twitter
ul be too busy tho. Ana think theres full crews on there. Aye ur s(2013) search twitter
@RossAndrew7 theres too much things aboot too man(2013) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ut dinna ken far u ken em fae theres only one thing to say; "A ken(2017) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Theres fuck all mobile aboot ma mum (2020) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
"Theres rats in thonner" on page 18
"Theres rats in thonner'. on page 19

2 matches

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
But always theres a crocus kookin’ through th
1 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@cider966 And theres still eejits asking when do t (2021) twitter link

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