A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

options Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.3 7.6 16.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2715 11 0 1 0 0
Number of authors18 12 5 1

Occurrences of options in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
it is ane-tae-ane. Ye get twa options an that's it. This is present on page 31

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
t wan hing: there wurhae many options fur lassies like me and Lizzi on page 53

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Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
em’s packin which limits ma options fairly much tae
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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Gàidhealtachd Options
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Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
, promisin tae leuk at aw the options includin a licensin scheme ta
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
is an we follie oan, aw other options noo redundant.
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
the subject. You’ve got two options, get a sick line, or come in.
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Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
exts that includit 3 Scottish options) but it gied us mair folios a
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
platit his - gey leemitit - options. He cudna keep trampin the ro
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Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
al ootcomes an best political options are can be done through the s
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Bidin wi jist the fower main options, these can be unnerstuid in t
rsettin nor either o thae twa options.
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Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
site taks ye tae mair an mair options an sairches that braiden inti
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
al at the fort - wayin up ma options at the minute - but a wee do (2020) twitter link
n industry - theyve got twae options noo - man up wae eer hard ha (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an his faither wis aat he hid options; an although it'd bin a gweed on page 95

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
alcony of Geneva', ye hae twa options. Ye can either hike up the ha on page 5
chain, even has savory waffle options sic as maet, cheese an vegeta on page 14
ies ye the fear, aire's ither options. Ilka 'ear, local an internat on page 17

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
dna really thocht afore aboot options like thon – life wi his fai
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@72redz1903 tweeted
tus quo in terms of political options. The present political option (2020) twitter link
gets hoofed fan there’s nae options tae play in midfielders and w (2020) twitter link
Absolutely, I mean fit ither options wis there tae wear wi yir den (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
ast and a puckle breakfast as options(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
can still be fun as een o da options fir sicn naems idda modren Sc on page 47

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