A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

despise Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of despise in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
one who did the earth as dust despise Here in this place from earth on page 33

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
youth and the type ae erse ah despise. on page 169

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ersity graduate an aw. Dinnae despise clivvir folk, Mr Wormwidd. Bu on page 93

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
ones @BenthicOrganism I might despise the likes of Truss. That disn (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
will live forever... __ Aye, despise him or adore him - wan thing on page 78

1 matches

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