A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

germanic Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20.3 17 1.5 0 168.6 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences6533 1 0 29 1 1
Number of authors12 7 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of germanic in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ences on its Anglian roots an Germanic nature, no least Gaelic, Dutc on page 35

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
d that's the forebear o North Germanic leids sic as Dens an Norn. on page 21

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
fact at the Scots shawed its Germanic ruits, bein sae sib tae the G on page 6

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
n *sterran in the auld Waster Germanic leid.
aes its oreeginal in the auld Germanic *erþō. In the Auld-Angles l
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Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
fund in ane o the Empire’s Germanic states, shawin that the reput
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
riety o Global English, but a Germanic leid in its ain richt, wi its
losely relatit tae ither West Germanic languages, sic as English, Ge
nd Dutch, forby tae the North Germanic languages o Danish, Swedish a
onie wey fae the freestaunin Germanic language status o Scots at ae
lish, as closely relatit West Germanic languages, share a degree o m
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Scots is the Germanic leid spak in Scotland. It is
– as weel as tae ither West Germanic leids, sic as German and Dutc
an and Dutch, forby the North Germanic leids o Danish, Swedish and N
e, Scots is siblike tae ither Germanic leids, sic as Danish and Germ
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wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
le an Modren periods. Wi like Germanic roots tae English, Scots wis
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
y different leid faimilies - Germanic on the ae haun, and Celtic on
Scots is a West Germanic leid. It is kin wi English fo
n wi English forby ither West Germanic leids sic as German and Dutch
s German and Dutch, and North Germanic leids sic as Danish, Swedish
t there: aye, which stems fae Germanic roots. Anither exemple o a Ge
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@pmcm1355 tweeted
n developit fae the same West Germanic source at the same time. Scot (2022) twitter link
ey've baith got the same West Germanic roots. https://t.co/YC4Thnl8i (2022) twitter link
h leids cam fae the same West Germanic source broucht ower bae the A (2022) twitter link
SCO. It cam fae the same West Germanic source as English, broucht ow (2022) twitter link
SCO. It cam fae the same West Germanic source as English broucht owe (2022) twitter link

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
wes versed in a nummer o the Germanic leids. Fit is mair, he’d ba
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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
's been influenced bi da Nort Germanic language Norn, at dee'd oot i on page V

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
an strong contact fae da Low Germanic languages, hit isna mutually on page 7
a lok o influence fae da Low Germanic languages. Shaetlan is wint w on page 12
als wi mercenaries fae aa dis Germanic tribes tae come an act as pae on page 13
Da varieties o da Nort Sea Germanic languages dis tribes spak wis on page 14
n alang wi da Continental Low Germanic languages (see da previous se on page 20
Also on pages 31, 42, 45, 72, 73, 78, 85, 102, 104
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Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
dat comes tae be fae da Proto-Germanic form *-andz. Idda Sooth Engli

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Definitely close tae whummle. Germanic an lug music forby.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
aloper (verb), perhaps from a Germanic phrase.(2020) search twitter