A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

origins Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 7.7 4.5 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2015 3 2 0 0 0
Number of authors15 10 3 2

Occurrences of origins in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Origins on page 201

1 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ometimes mair a quest fir the origins an formation o wir National I on page 84

2 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
Scots shares its origins wi English. Baith exist in a on page 7

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
n drama o Kinmont Willie, the origins o the Common Ridin tradeetion on page 127

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
cause o thair braider British origins but the'r maun be somethin no
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ifferent dialecks, haes their origins in a common historical soond.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
y the Pechts at foondin their origins in the classical warld, which
1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
arld aroond us — haes their origins in the ootpit o a William Pla
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
on the subject o Wallace’s origins, finnd their voice whan it co
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@LairnScots tweeted
rical Linguistics video, 'The Origins of the Scots Language' is her (2020) twitter link
A braw video aw aboot the origins of the #Scots language - in (2020) twitter link
Watch 'The origins of the Scots language - in S (2020) twitter link
Jeremy Smith oan the origins o the word 'neep': https://t. (2018) twitter link
burgh 's animatit video, 'The Origins of the Scots Langauge', avail (2018) twitter link

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
er the Norse an mair probable origins come fae thir latter periods.
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
Can anyone help wi the origins of the scaffie wirdie? https:(2018) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
or Scots. Airbrush thing have origins in har (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
home in oan the origins, on page 11

1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
the sæm wurd - wae the sæm origins. At wan time the gæthereen i

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