A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

degrees Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 8.2 10.6 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences2716 7 0 4 0 0
Number of authors24 14 6 4

Occurrences of degrees in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ame token, aw Alice's various degrees ae "smallness" are cover't in on page vi

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Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an thare's varyin degrees on page 47

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
y; the turn o your heid a few degrees, an there's Arthur's Sait an on page 78

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
rning three hundred and sixty degrees from the ground up. Wan han-d on page 162

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Wi aw degrees laid oot in ecliptic constell on page 69
Illuminatin by degrees, slow at first on yer frosty on page 95

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
gird that gaes aboot it at 98 degrees tilt. Acause o this byordar p
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Scottish poets is to varying degrees English repossessed by the vo
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Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
rs oan Seafield Street wiz 12 degrees ablo.
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
At less than echty-nine degrees.
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
kin the fields ... A couple o degrees had made a muckle differ here
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Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ang voters wioot uiniversitie degrees. Forby, this explains hoo the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
l tell what, till you find by degrees that it's a want o everything
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
seem tae refleck, tae flittin degrees, the centuries o co-bidin o S
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@jax6754 tweeted
r hasnae made it here yet! 10 degrees here the day!!!!?????(2015) search twitter
planed 2016? Huggggggg fae 12 degrees! X(2015) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
in awa in a temperature o 120 degrees, ae meenit shufflin coal inti on page 44

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Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Degrees ir floatin aboot like leaves on page 194

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Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
ndows?” The voice, risin bi degrees in the fremmit spikk, unsattl
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The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
fe, presumably that extra twa degrees of caul’ is the clincher, i
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@cligeey tweeted
@Barber_Singer 5 degrees expected the nicht(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
towards the Fittie bar at 25 degrees then trying tae get served fa(2018) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
It is 11 degrees outside. I doot it's taps aff (2017) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
I hae twa degrees in creative writing, wan wi a(2021) search twitter

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
It's a balmy 6-8 degrees here accordin tae da met offi(2020) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Its 21.4 degrees in da lasses room enenoo #sum (2018) twitter link