A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

you'd Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words19 14.9 24.1 79.5 23.2 41.3 0
Number of occurrences6129 16 8 4 4 0
Number of authors32 19 5 3 3 2

Occurrences of you'd in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
me and the domme. A time when you'd huv hud yur mortgage oan the on page 34

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
y of us could get through it. You'd need to be built like the sid on page 30

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
rry, fuckin Bruce Lee, furgot you'd smashed aw the Toi wans yirse on page 10
suhin back or cunts wid think you'd shat it n that wid be you fin on page 44

2 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'If you'd just read this through and si on page 1

2 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
and A didnae wish you'd drop dead. on page 32

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
you'd think his sons must be simila on page 41

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Or the ither wey roond Like you'd been on the bevvy. on page 25
business deals. In the past, you'd catch the odd hint fae him, t on page 76

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
y. The wey the cunt goes oan, you'd hink he's a curator at the Br on page 16

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
they carry on ah'm surprised you'd dae somethin lik this, Well K on page 169

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'You'd look braw in wan,' said Mr Wo on page 103

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
cauld. I wis jist wunnerin if you'd be interestit in playin wi me on page 20

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
r oot. But the way she talks, you'd huv thought she'd lived a lif on page 3
'If you'd treated Mum wia little respec on page 29
kled encyclopaedia o everyhin you'd ever want tae know aboot Holl on page 32
e hit-and-run while scrollin. You'd huv thought ma phone would hu on page 84

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
tellin us how you'd juist goat back on page 81

2 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
serve that, athout yer leid, 'You'd be in the world, but without on page 90

1 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
You'd be the chaff. on page 13

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
got the Chinese flag here - you'd think they'd have wan of thei
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
You'd think by the number of roads
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@RickHJohnston tweeted
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@Chazzbat tweeted
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@annieones tweeted
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Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
you'd hear a swished backswash file on page 10

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wi ma lugs. Ah'd bi aricht iv you'd spik up insteid o mutterin an on page 22
man, iv brains war birdshite, you'd hae an impty cage." on page 34
"You'd fly next Saturday," she gied on page 39
an doon, "you might feel that you'd benefit from our full makeove on page 80
"Oh, you'd be surprised." The wifie's sp on page 81
Also on pages 82
8 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the same game - I'd coont an you'd rin on aheid. Bit, of coorse, on page 19

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
sie but spoke to Mr Pirie, “You'd better give her two pairs, an
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
nd fine one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying
he earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of i
2 matches

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
a even stand up for your ain. You'd be happy to see the back of N (2023) twitter link

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
You'd think id wis 'idyllic' - tra on page 86

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
fairly turn your stomach and you'd say hid wisna right. on page 11
odd disaster bit no more than you'd expect. on page 24
d Sadie, "I wid be obliged if you'd leave me hoose right noo. on page 35
o room at me Granny's hoose. You'd be warm and cosy there. on page 54

5 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
haddan oot the letter. 'Here, you'd better read hid fur theesael. on page 37
through whitiver this is tae. You'd best write back right awae an on page 38

2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
you'd used: dat een I'd aksed aboot on page 23
you'd be möld rich, an dey'd be sa on page 34

2 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
is pic wis "scratch n listen" you'd hear wind, lintie/twite, whau(2020) search twitter

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
2/ And hers was the company you'd want to keep in life. Sic a b(2020) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
@adrianlambert Let me know if you'd like one, they're getting to (2020) search twitter
good with you. Mad world but you'd never know there was a pandem(2020) search twitter
is! Poetry says it all! Hope you'd a guid yin Aileen x(2020) search twitter