A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

axt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words34.6 0 0 0 5.8 0 491.3
Number of occurrences1120 0 0 1 0 111
Number of authors5 1 4

Occurrences of axt in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
e tied up, he clamb aboard an axt fur da skyipper. He hed a duf
1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Davie axt, half coddin. on page 19

1 matches

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ear that the three weelàsses axt Dodgson fur a story an, reluc on page v
es oot?" a hale lock o voices axt. on page 27
ize dae yae want tae bae?" it axt. on page 50
"Hoo am A gan tae git in?" axt Alice agane, in a louder tone on page 57
said Alice, "but A hinnae bin axt yit." on page 64
Also on pages 68, 71, 72, 73, 82, 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 99, 102, 113, 119
23 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ast cum tae Jerusalem an the' axt, "Whar ïs tha yin that haes on page 2
. "Tha men wur dumfoonért an axt, "Whut kine o a man ïs this? on page 9
Zechariah axt tha angel: on page 69
Mary axt tha angel, on page 70
Sae the' axt tha wean's faither bi makin s on page 71
Also on pages 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 90, 94, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112
86 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
"Ir ye aaricht, Wullie? she axt. "Hoo cum yer no dressed? D'y on page 18

1 matches

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