Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

understan	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.4	2.1	10.6	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	11	4	7	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	4	2

Occurrences of understan in Corpus

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Central

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
And stick tae things ye understan. on page 14

1 matches

Peffers, Bob The Pittin Doon o Guid Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
im wha wis dolts fir we kid a understan thaim bit they couldna unerst
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
drink, maist o’ us couldnae understan’ a word he said. We soon fu
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
these laid will help yae tae understan yer ain laid mich better. Yae (2021) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Winter nae wild this I canna understan,
ed tae go. Jonsar Eck coodnae understan the damn thing. He
understan her directions. It wis nae ee
3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
understan fit wye the timmer hoose wis
lang. Fit Jonsar Eck couldnae understan wis, fowk did grudge the
anither planet." Noo div you understan fit wye it his tae be second
3 matches

Mitchell, Kiera Fit why nae?, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
I dina understan fit why nae?
1 matches