Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

tens	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.1	13	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	23.7	2	1
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	1
NEC - North East Central	46.4	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	21.2	2	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
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	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tens in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
roon speired “Fit’s three tens ?” Johnny wad cheep up “th
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
or this time, it's only a few tens o fowk fa hiv died on page 20

2 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
stockin soles an says." Size tens ". Wan Fittit wis oot
uld pair, you see I wear size tens ana".
2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
lomew celebrations in London. Tens o thoosands o oot-o-touners w
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
authority wards nummer in the tens o thoosans. Hou dis this mait on page 29

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n that stories hae lastit fer tens o thousans o years in ither p on page 80

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h’ve made ye thousands noo, tens ay thousands.’
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
at haes been debatit for mony tens o year amang the community o on page 7

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
isms are kittilt up, bit whit tens tae happen is that we hear oo
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
ieFordSNP Well, ma faither an tens o thousands o socialist ex mi (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
gh volume sales, (fer example tens o' thoosans), ir on page 55

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