A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

highlights Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 5.7 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1411 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of highlights in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t. She's a brunette, wae fair highlights runnin through hur straighten on page 25

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
crooned his heid; his blonde highlights illuminating under th' moons
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
ress”,and whit ye see in the highlights,DG should’ve squared that ba(2019) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nslie m8 n al catch up on the highlights oh the game 2 morro (2021) twitter link
lassie singing n watchin the highlights oh the rose lads winnin at sp (2020) twitter link
dFA @WalunaCrew thanx for the highlights of the game guys - and no co (2020) twitter link
ShireFC al need tae watch the highlights later as am busy the noo - m (2020) twitter link
enjoyed n a also watched the highlights of ur game - it was a cracke (2020) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
Een o the highlights o the week 11am - coffee and (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
got blue bin black bin in the highlights calendar(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
goin ta be wan o my lockdown highlights, I hed a super day daday (2020) twitter link