A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

norn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.9 2 0 9.9 156.9 0 13.3
Number of occurrences354 0 1 27 0 3
Number of authors12 3 1 5 3

Occurrences of norn in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
s keepit kenspeckles fae Auld Norn gremmar, a leid that's the fo on page 21

2 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
s day, in Auld-Angles an Auld Norn. In coorse, Latin (whither di
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
Smashin! A Norn poem on ma timeline! https://(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
r his dictionary o The Orkney Norn.
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
bi da Nort Germanic language Norn, at dee'd oot ida eighteent c on page V

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
every knowe a wird pictir in Norn. on page 19

3 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ts main ancestor languages is Norn (extinct) an Scots, wi a lok on page 7
s da noo extinct Scandinavian Norn, da language at wis eense spo on page 9
¸k ower in 1469. Da shift fae Norn tae Scots geed peerie wyes an on page 10
forebears: Shaetlan comes fae Norn an Scots, wi a lok o influenc on page 12
ast Norse, at wid come tae be Norn. At da sam time da Northumbri on page 15
Also on pages 16, 20, 47, 87, 94
20 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
In The Norn Language of Orkney and Shetla
The reason Norn died ... was because the Nort
2 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
wir maistly taen fae de aald Norn; 'laverni' is een o dem, deri(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Norn' Irelan' selectors wir on the on page 2

1 matches

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
t her wheesht an tha lichts o norn Bilfawst kythed ablow thaim.
1 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
Och, ye've made 45 dolls frae Norn Irn wile happy!(2020) search twitter

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