A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

alphabet Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 6.2 0 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1512 0 2 1 0 0
Number of authors10 7 2 1

Occurrences of alphabet in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an alphabet o poems, folks an nations. on page 50

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
their fav'rite letter o' the alphabet, it's this, it's tha', it's b on page

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
playin that stupit Christmas Alphabet song aw afternoon. She played on page 40
tet writin the letters ae the Alphabet in a semi circle; then she wr on page 106

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
The Scots alphabet now consists of the same lett on page 17

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
he'r no eneuch letters in the alphabet for aa the soonds in the lang
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
this Latin alphabet
the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
n be taught the letters o the alphabet, and even to read wee bits o
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
sic as, Animal ABC - A Scots Alphabet, Planet Fankle, The Hoose o H
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
alphabet on page 7

1 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
hat wid be a whole new Orkney alphabet tae mak up. on page 8

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
d idda International Phonetic Alphabet."

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