A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waterstones Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences42 0 0 1 1 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of waterstones in Corpus

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Central

@johnstone_shane tweeted
ns, Johannsons an thi like in Waterstones afore it shut fir three weeks (2020) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
Scot! Anne Donovan will be at Waterstones in Glesga oan Tuesday 19th No (2019) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
tae stick wi buyin books frae Waterstones raedir as Amazon, an even try(2021) search twitter

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
ScotlandÂ’s biggest bookshop @Waterstones - chiefly when a muckle bitÂ(2019) search twitter