apostrophe | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occurences normalised per million words | 4.7 | 4.6 | 0 | 0 | 11.6 | 10.3 | 13.3 | |
Number of occurrences | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Number of authors | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
t the teename the 'apologetic apostrophe' throu modern Scots screivars on page 32
'Gled Stanes', whaur the only apostrophe comprehendit is athin a contr on page 33
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
e gaed as faur as pittin in a apostrophe whaurever a letter wisna in t
for a wonder, he didna pit a apostrophe efter the "-in" endins o verb
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Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
. Obviously wi us no writin a apostrophe at the end o "wi" nouadays, t
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
Scots, it wis left oot an an apostrophe wis pitten in its place.
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@LairnScots tweeted
forgie them fir no mindin the apostrophe. :-) https://t.co/aB85VlGwJr (2019) twitter link