A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

item Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 5.6 4.5 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences1711 3 0 1 0 2
Number of authors16 10 3 1 2

Occurrences of item in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hard Chambers are a bit of an item. Yi heard wrong Miss, ah tolt on page 169

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
shie-heid that introduced the item on the tellie shawed the hail
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
he dictionar entries for this item: ‘I'll cleed thee in the ta
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
Aprile 1565:- Item. To ane boy passend of Edinbu
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
an Raggle wis mair or less an item, an she fund hersel mair an m
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
an ilka time he passed a new item o vegetation, he wid luik fur
1 matches

Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
r findin yer favourite luxury item on sale. It could be a moment
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
A gey flittable item o syntax meanin ‘in additio
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
yesterday, so that's another item on ma roll in the morning... (2023) twitter link

@johnstone_shane tweeted
ch95 There ye go. We'd caw an item of low grade material a "shan (2020) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e lol - eer needin a guid 12 item breakfast doon u n a fish sup (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
is open tae question but the item duly appeared in the Fortean
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
to offer in exchange for this item?’
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
sket full, then 10 folk wee 1 item waiting!(2017) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
an when I wis double checkin item codes an colours an sizes wi (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An item o lang minenin, on page 26

1 matches

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
m Irish all without I'm every item Scotch within"
1 matches

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