A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

coincidence Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.2 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1612 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors14 10 4

Occurrences of coincidence in Corpus

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Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
, bit Ah expect that's jist a coincidence. Mark ye, it's geiy queer aw on page 34

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Well, it wid be some fuckin coincidence if it wisnae him. Ah mean how on page 106

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nton Club. Tal, about a happy coincidence, said Harpreet when ah phoned on page 96

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
h seems like mair than jist a coincidence noo as that's the year Great on page 52

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
wis Terry Dempsey tae - some coincidence eh? on page 136

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ae let masel in, and bi sheer coincidence, am mare or less roon the cor
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Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
eferendum - which micht be a coincidence, or then again michtna. But w
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Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
w eh? It’d need tae be some coincidence if it wisnae.’ he sais.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
mair intae this nor a muckle coincidence but the SPCB shuidna be sae c
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
road – hackneys. Where, as coincidence wid huv it, ah’ve just trav
wis wan fur the watchin. Nae coincidence they’ve aw just fuckin rins
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
risen fae sindry roots - fur coincidence raither nor influence at firs
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
gaan tae tell me at 'at wis a coincidence. Nivver! As sure as ther'e a on page 35

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Weel, ere's a coincidence." Susie pattit the Labrador's on page 71

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
le storybeuk. An, that is nae coincidence. Chenonceau was ane o the cas on page 17

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Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ld’ve still only hae been a coincidence but this proved athoot ony do
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