A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nil Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.1 3 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences106 2 0 0 0 2
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of nil in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
inst me but it's nae use. Wan nil tae me. on page 12

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
won, twa nil! 'First gemme eh! Ye're ma lu on page 195

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
managed tae beat Celtic four nil. Aw the goals came in the sec on page 70

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Gentlemen of the road, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Saint Mirren FOWER, Celtic NIL
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
it wis like, aye, Rovers, wan-nil, nae bother.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
here at port seton - score 1 nil tae the home side - part 1 o (2020) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ye Ah see the final score wis nil-nil, wis't?' on page 59

2 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ye, but wi thon aul book it's nil - nil mair aften than not! ; (2014) twitter link