A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

candidate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 10.3 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2220 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors15 13 1 1

Occurrences of candidate 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
poem fir Scottish Pairlament candidate William Coffey March 5° 2021 on page 77

3 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ere aa thocht he wis wud, Fit candidate fir Hell. on page 11

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ter soon ah'm gonnae become a candidate fur yin ae they hoaspital dri on page 119

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
dementia, and she's a perfect candidate. Maybe she doesnae understand on page 27

1 matches

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
l coont indefinitely ... an a candidate fae Lossiemouth wha challenge on page 49

1 matches

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
wuidbePairlementar. Soud nae candidate no lift aneuch voits tae no h
plouralitie o votes than thon candidate is eleckit. Gif no than aa th
2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
As it happens, the’r a guid candidate in the Bible setten furth in
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Let’s see, “The candidate should be physically fit, wil
1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
oters pits their cross agin a candidate staundin for a pairtie (the b
e they typicallie lists 10-20 candidate names under ilk pairtie name)
y leuks at the votes for ilka candidate tae decide wha gets electit f
3 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
happened tae a mare deservin candidate.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
in Marie Maitland an obvious candidate fur exactly which wumman. A d
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
Marie Maitland a byous strang candidate fur its author.
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
practice o layin hands on the candidate’s heid in token o his inves

@Sinethugcat tweeted
pswizard Funny, saw the local candidate ootnaboot the day tryin tae g (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
defo a candidate for blankety blank https://t. (2020) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
at reaction applies tae every candidate (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
tin fir a certain independent candidate daday (2021) twitter link