A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

af Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 1 3 19.9 0 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences102 2 2 0 1 3
Number of authors9 2 2 2 1 2

Occurrences of af in Corpus

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Central

Steele, Gregor When Scotty said “Scunner”, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Af coorse Ah can, wha cannae?
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
Thank you ? it wis bad, dirty af, genuinely spent mair time cl(2020) search twitter

Doric

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
An af't he blew them in his lair. on page 23

1 matches

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
tourie oor ma heid and headed af doon ma usual road. The walk
1 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
die blink he turned an gaed a'af. He steud in the faer corner on page 21

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
er Peedie things are as tough af (2020) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ince strippit ae wheen slates af its ruif tae
1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
," Alice said wile politely, "af A had it wrote doon: but A ca on page 91

1 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Af coorse, there were some ither on page 13
Af coorse they wir quarely tuk a on page 26

2 matches

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