A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

necessary Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 11.3 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2622 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors19 16 2 1

Occurrences of necessary in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
imum available to me. This is necessary to demonstrate the severity o on page 56
"That will not be necessary, Mr McGiver. We recognise a f on page 59

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
d no keep her longer than was necessary. If she'd like tae huv a sate on page 1

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ithers tirelessly kept up the necessary logistic support, an yet ithe on page 107

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MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Twas necessary, on page 13

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
that robust vigour of opinion necessary for long and sustained flight on page 69

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
cords and we can then dae the necessary research. It will still nae b on page 16

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
as non-leitarary prose may be necessary condeitions for staundart sta on page 56

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
mind - the dictionars are a necessary investment, an A'd fair luve
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Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
he mannie says. Uise wirds if necessary. Weel, ye can hae aw the cult
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ead tae his door an takes the necessary steps tae circumvent prosecut
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Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
there. She’ll help make the necessary arrangements with you to take
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Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
es, they ostensibly, lack the necessary self-awareness tae register h
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
an bein an the aforementioned necessary prerequisite ay bein a condes
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McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
send fir an’ ambulance, if necessary. Gin someone gets a lock-on s
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
m afraid that'll probably be necessary,” sayed the Tibetan.
“No! No - that will not be necessary. It’s not important. Malik,
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Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
thegither tae blockade an gin necessary invade onie threit tae the se
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Facebook link ( 2016) Central
an cairried awa as the proof necessary fur the reward o 5,000 merks.

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
Yet, tae me, twa things seem necessary for this tae happen. Yin is,
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
? ‘’Is this really fuckin necessary?’’ he asks.
he results ‘’That’s not necessary. There’s no need for you to
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Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
An alarm wis nivver necessary. on page 30
an whether it's necessary for us on page 60

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@72redz1903 tweeted
ng 11 afore it was absolutely necessary? We dinna have the luxury of (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
en it's tough, but sadly also necessary.(2021) search twitter