A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

favourites Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 10.8 7.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2721 5 0 1 0 0
Number of authors21 16 4 1

Occurrences of favourites in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
rolt ma eyes. He's wan ae her favourites aw because he's a brilliant s on page 169

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Ither favourites in the gaithery comprehends A on page 60
rt Scots communities. A wheen favourites is The Sea for Breakfast an T on page 61

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
oot their favourites. At a pasta shop they picked on page 42

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
orsels o his tried and tested favourites. Some nights it would be deep on page 44
so fillin cupboards wi their favourites is nae bother. Even efter ma on page 77

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Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
Maxwell, roundalays were oor favourites, an lots o poetry. My favouri on page 120

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
it wes aye ane o Allwullie's favourites, but wha's to tell it nou he' on page 72

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
ackhall. Ane o ma parteicular favourites is Nancy Nicholson's, Listen on page 122

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Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e kent as Gearie) is yin o ma favourites. It meant a lot tae Gearie an on page 46

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Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
Leg a' lamb, rat's wan e' ma favourites an' rat's whit A opted fur. R
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Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
g encouragement tae yin o his favourites. By the way, Johnny liked a p
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Auld favourites, we’d anticipate,
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Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
a joke – it wis wan o’ ma favourites in ma youth. Here gangs.
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Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
But these were ma daddy’s favourites. He said ah looked brilliant
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@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
eBooks @RuthieRedArt Yin o my favourites ??(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
ackiepatie Aye? It's wan o ma favourites.(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
icht - but it's no wan o his favourites. How no? Read aboot it oan th (2020) twitter link
eptember? Ye can vote fir yer favourites here: https://t.co/PIC2pQC58D (2019) twitter link
ust 's 'Bookbug' app, wi auld favourites like Katie Bairdie an Ally Ba (2019) twitter link
the weans liked it! Ony ither favourites tae yaise wi wee yins? (2018) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
is teeth Nuts! Said she - ma favourites Nae harm in haein een Bit the on page 15

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an ma favourites, the guillemots. on page 4

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
k, or the Auld Hunner war the favourites, mebbe a dizzen tunes at mais
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
caramels an chocolates aa yer favourites.”
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Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
ar. Poppies are ane o bees’ favourites gien their hichtit pollen con
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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Dunna du tell him dey wir her Favourites, for dis man be on page 121

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