A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

’ Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 5.1 4.5 29.8 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences1910 3 3 0 0 3
Number of authors8 3 2 1 2

Occurrences of ’ in Corpus

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Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@DrMDempster @d_anderson878 Ye’d no tell atween: ‘ye ken her(2018) search twitter
Costumes have to be scary!’ I’m like, ‘Aye, nah. Wear yer d(2018) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
h and Polish, ‘My mum says it’s, like, my first language now (2019) twitter link
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and 1 other occurrences.

@MizLiot tweeted
(2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fa’s been up the Aiberdeen aye ay(2018) search twitter
“Ah wintit tae make siccar ah’d switched it aff!’ Ah’m tak(2019) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
(2020) twitter link

Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
r different situations. ‘That’s slang!’ disno mean hid isno (2020) twitter link
use the infinitive here: ‘She’ll no be wantan tae flit.’ (2021) twitter link
(2021) twitter link

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
(2020) search twitter
(2020) search twitter

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
laireAllan ‘Pure parboiled th’day. Are yeh goin’ fer a poke (2021) twitter link