A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

offered Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.7 14.9 22.6 0 11.6 0 4.4
Number of occurrences4729 15 0 2 0 1
Number of authors34 21 10 2 1

Occurrences of offered in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
nder standable - but when ah offered them their £500 back they we on page 31

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Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ed the aipple fae his desk an offered it tae Matthew. 'It's a'richt on page 43

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
fur aw the drinks in toon. Ah offered and he said naw. As long as a on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tious. A quiet start that hus offered Aldo the opportunity tae step on page 108
timental type. The evenin hus offered me some welcomed blasts fae t on page 167

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
huddered at the thocht, as he offered the piecebox roond. on page 13
o snodcakes for the game, an offered ane tae Doug. He explained th on page 21

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And offered up her thee tae Him, yer mage on page 33

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Nifter an pree ilk offered thing, on page 16

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
abel 'Glaswegian' whan it was offered. Mair stertlin, i the cogniti on page 9

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
thair publishers haes kindly offered tae gie the three winners an
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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
peakers o Community leids wis offered as
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Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
d lift the flair up a bit?’ offered Wullie.
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
re overjoyed when the Cooncil offered us this hoose. A lower cottag
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Briggs, Susi Diva, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Dumfries and Galloway, poetry
She gaithers in aw the love offered.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
th, an takin ane whan it's no offered, while promisin tae fleetch t
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McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
tae wait jist by a bend that offered me some cover. Noo A wis here
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Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
st office queue when a mannie offered me a sweetie an’ said ‘ah
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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ference in direct quotations, offered “Ye’re whit?” Joseph of
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Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
d preachin. The Privy Cooncil offered a big a reward fur him deid o

@Chazzbat tweeted
ne when he wis in a meetin an offered tae tak a message. Caller did(2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
Sturgeon will be offered entry tae the House of Lords (2022) twitter link

@johnstone_shane tweeted
r in ma supermarket we've bin offered a 10% bonus on only wan week' (2020) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
s Language teaching resources offered as pairt o the Oor Wullie BIG (2019) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
top drawer - neymar n mbappe offered nothin second half - crackin (2021) twitter link
game in the car park n never offered me yin - a wis gutted likes (2020) twitter link
avan for 4 years before being offered a house in east lothian! (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
go she stairted comin in. She offered ti help; sweepin the fleer, w on page 38

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Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
t's like this," I said. "If I offered ye £4 less 10% fu much wid y on page 124

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Benzie, Lesley Tales Fae The Doric Side - Vadim Shysimarin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
punishment that I will be offered. on page 65

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah'll come wi ye," offered Alice, sounin concerned. on page 89

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Jonsar Eck's pals stopped an offered Jonsar a tug. "Och aye I'll b
ae like wis, the wifie nivver offered him a cup o tay. Fin it came
offered Jane a sma cottage in the mid
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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
fa came in aboot, they wid be offered a cup o tay.
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
this corner o the world. They offered me a relocation package, but
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
mair than eence she’d been offered the chance tae mairry. Mabel
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@d_anderson878 tweeted
A'll hae ony ye're offered an dinnae wint. https://t.co/(2020) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
@Thomsonnn83 Cormack offered Boyle 10 grand a week this ti (2022) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
stick ma horse on then Bert's offered tae buy a nip or twa(2017) search twitter
actly that 2 days efter being offered it, nae before as wis nae off(2017) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ean a great deal to him to be offered this job.' I paused, an dan a on page 59

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Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ditor. My jaa drappit when he offered me an aa expenses paid trip t
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Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
For offered epples on page 13

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