A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

there’s Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.9 8.7 21.1 0 5.8 0 13.3
Number of occurrences3517 14 0 1 0 3
Number of authors12 7 3 1 1

Occurrences of there’s in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
Mince,bean and tattie pie ??. There’s no a thing we dinnae put in a(2020) search twitter
e finish ????. Cannae believe there’s nothing on this side. World h(2020) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
ots language gets saved cause there’s a bunch o hot campaigners the(2020) search twitter
rMDempster @TommyHerbert Aye! There’s hunners. It’d be a braw conc(2018) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
@BehaltKeeps @craigblackphoto There’s no doot aboot it @davemitch19(2020) search twitter
ut some of the, “sorry Boys, there’s nae extension”, and some of (2019) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
ht be gey dreich the day, but there’s ay colour an licht tae gie th(2020) search twitter
@pruetweets There’s a wheen ither versions an mai(2020) search twitter
yont fae this black squad - there’s nae sic savages elsewhere all(2020) search twitter
h tracking down, Adeline, and there’s an auld alliance connection -(2020) search twitter
s I only ken lift as sky, but there’s a wheen ither meanins in the (2020) search twitter
and 2 other occurrences.

@LairnScots tweeted
'Then there’s Kevin McKidd, an Elgin boy, w (2018) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
There’s 18 month between me n meg las (2021) twitter link
3rd day in ma new flat n there’s a powercut, time tae get to k (2021) twitter link

@ricky_ballboy tweeted
There’s a fair wheen o guid readin in(2020) search twitter

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
the keeper showed up well and there’s mair tae come fae Rama, Miovs (2022) twitter link
tae Scotland. I dinna ken if there’s onything in it, but, this is (2022) twitter link
@AberdeenFC @ScottishCup Like there’s plinty tae choose fae of on f (2021) twitter link
@caitlin27204868 @AberdeenFC There’s a lot who accept even grudgin (2021) twitter link
d flush? Folk keep asking why there’s nae real critique of the mala (2021) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
Glesga spikker. Do ye ken if there’s been onythin written aboot it(2020) search twitter
Hmmm. There’s something about the sound of (2020) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
@j_d_r63 There’s jist nae words ???????(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
k you Emma, and do take care. There’s going to be such a hamefarin (2020) search twitter

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@thebogmyrtle And there’s too many eejits fond of sledg(2020) search twitter
@StuartPoet It is aye - there’s a big white yin beside me!(2020) search twitter
@placenamesni There’s hunners mair! :)(2020) search twitter