A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

initial Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 8.7 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1817 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors12 11 1

Occurrences of initial in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Then understandably, eh? that initial urge tae react becomes somewh on page 96
wid oaften deny it. Aw ae his initial negatively taewards they'm st on page 98

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ugh Mairshall shrugged aff an initial feelin o inferiority, bi dint on page 72

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
the polecat, thummart, wi an initial dental fricative, is an inter
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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
Mak siccar that, throu their initial trainin an professional oncom
throu professional oncome an initial teacher
that the subject is pairt o initial teacher education an professi
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Efter ma initial shock, ah’ve goat a haud ay
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
inder had gotten ower his ain initial shock, he halpit his granfait
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McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Clurg, Fernando jots doon his initial post-EUref reactions.
t i the lest 24 hours. As the initial souch o relief as Nigel Farag
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ions, but here’s jist a sum initial thochts on the state o the pa
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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
on i the mainstram media. The initial success o the new pro-indepen
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
The initial stanzas o the poem are devoti
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
wi the verb (fur it is a verb initial leid) while the Scots ane ste
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@bigandymccoll tweeted
We've got tae reinforce that initial strong reaction, so there's l (2022) twitter link

@GMacminto tweeted
k veesit ilka node? Create an initial paittern o Ls & Rs whaur it d (2022) twitter link

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
locate Erchie Palindrome. Oor initial fear aboot the beast o Brunti
1 matches

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