A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

verbs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words32 18.1 3.2 9.9 360.4 0 0
Number of occurrences9934 2 1 62 0 0
Number of authors15 12 1 1 2

Occurrences of verbs in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
then they discovert nouns an verbs that gied a meanin on page 120

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Verbs on page 2
Verbs on page 21
* Some verbs is gien the ending - ed or - on page 23
he words maun an can is modal verbs, alang wi ither words sic as on page 31
, interjections, nouns, saws, verbs an reflexive verbs). on page 51

10 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
rweave their substantives and verbs on page 27

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
urds like 'stour', an perrs o verbs, like 'rairin an haggin'. His on page 135

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ophe efter the "-in" endins o verbs. It's likely that this makkin
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
ween the Scots forms o strang verbs that's no seen in English, fo
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
airticle aboot - s endins on verbs – is the kynd o grammar at
ar wad be the pairts o strang verbs. For example, the tradeetiona
Seemilarly wi a fouth o ither verbs at differs frae English: finn
o Scots grammar is whit waek verbs taks syllabic - it endins. Da
– on the past tenses o waek verbs at ends in ‘p’, ‘t’,
8 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
r its uiss is that the want o verbs (the’r aboot a dizzen) latâ
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
sset, hems, hoolet, lum, neb; verbs like chap, redd, swank etc. â
1 matches

Pennie, Len The Wheesht, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
Sort thon verbs oot fae the nouns, pit them w
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
t’ and ‘ought’ as modal verbs in SSE in favour o ‘have to
k past tense forms o specific verbs: fur exemple, telt/selt (told
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
‘-t / - it’ endin on weak verbs that we aye see in Modern Sco
at we aye see in Modern Scots verbs – fur exemple, indewit (Mod
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
tae collect irregular French verbs an lairn ilka form o reg verb(2020) search twitter
collectin o irregular French verbs an obscure tenses moods-voice(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
some folk contract auxiliary verbs in certain circumstances, an (2021) twitter link

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
e unco thraavin, some o thaim-verbs in parteiclar, they're the ma on page 82

2 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
But ken and kent are northern verbs, used throughout Scandinavia
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ae mak nouns (entities) oot o verbs (actions): on page 39
t maks nouns (entities) oot o verbs (actions): on page 40
ing/-ung at formed nouns fae verbs. Ithin Sooth English bi da 13 on page 41
MAKKIN VERBS (ACTIONS) on page 43
WI VERBS: ACTIONS AN PROCESSES on page 44
Also on pages 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 83, 84, 88, 89, 95
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Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
. Syllabic ‘it’ endins on verbs at ends in p, t, k, b, d, an
1 matches

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