A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

would've Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.6 0 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences85 0 0 1 2 0
Number of authors8 5 1 2

Occurrences of would've in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
s wur lilac. Anither time she would've been loath tae rush doon the on page 1

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
ur the wife says she wished A would've fir then A could've breast fe on page 45

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
f she told them naw, it nivir would've happened.
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@iScotNews Nicola would've asked for his resignation. It(2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
redo the poem. Think only you would've understood the first recital (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
We would've been warming up for da Shetla(2020) search twitter

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
Thinking of this yin on what would've been her 75th birthday. Love (2020) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
NicolaSturgeon As ma auld dad would've said - there's richt, there'(2020) search twitter