Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'mistakes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

mistakes	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.9	19	16
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	27.1	5	3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	9.4	7	6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mistakes in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
a get hid right. I meed a few mistakes. on page 8

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Banff Academy Aiberdeenshire Bairns an Young Fowk’s Chairter , (GIRFEC 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
enced. Realise that wi aa mak mistakes , an mak sure an gie us the in
1 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
nish laughing. If yi iver mak mistakes in life yi hiv tae kane yi ji
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
With aa 'em mistakes ye'd think we'd be learnin on page 158

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
eas there. There were as many mistakes fan McCrorie was at the back (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Brian_Pacey at your age - mistakes r a problem m8 - nae worries (2020) twitter link

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
naebuddies mistakes. on page 41

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
an he's made mistakes, but he's still here; still f on page 13

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
Thur's spellin mistakes in every other word. Ah swear on page 1

2 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
forcin a smile. Awbody makes mistakes . God knows ah’ve driven hur
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ve an breathe, an he’s made mistakes , but he’s still here; still
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ts asperities, correcting its mistakes, embellishing its naked detai on page 69

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
wi his job. Aw richt, he made mistakes . That time an arra had duntit
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
same mistakes ,
mistakes
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
need tae avoid makkin the ae mistakes again.
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
on. Leave it up tae the refs, mistakes and aw. (2022) twitter link

@raiphsays tweeted
s capable a learnin fae hes mistakes! Nae Tory ever cin!(2020)