A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

perform Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 8.6 4.5 9.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences2317 3 1 0 0 2
Number of authors16 12 2 1 1

Occurrences of perform 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

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
sterious weys, ma wunners tae perform. An A accept nae liability. R on page 50

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
th an, aye, thae wha fail tae perform will be punished. If ye hae b on page 41

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oay who wouldnae hesitate tae perform his ain version ae stigmata o on page 123
y thoat ah wis gonnae huv dae perform the Heimlich manoeuvre oan th on page 166

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
mid teens A wis stairtin tae perform in pubs an at folk clubs an t on page 70

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Say your say, an I'll try an perform it. on page 35

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
imilar to ‘deal with’, ‘perform’ etc.:
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ddocks and The Burdies, first perform’t in the 1950s and 60s. As
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
the mair o, as we see she can perform the rare eneuch feat o writin
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Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
tae tak pairt in ony ploy or perform ony act ettled at the cowping
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ckin Houdini himself couldnae perform an escpae fae that seat.
caviar up here again. Ah’ll perform open hert surgery oan yae. Go
2 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
Aff tae Bilbao to perform with Iona Fyfe Trio at @salaB(2020) search twitter
I’m GIY tricket tae perform at yon first Scots Language A(2019) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
doea that mean yir coming tae perform at Ed Fringe this year? XXX ?(2015) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
raw wee video. Lairners could perform their aim Scots poem an film (2019) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
anbri888 @ILawson27 I saw him perform fairly recently and he had a (2021) twitter link

Doric

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
n gie them the confidence tae perform for the pleesure o ithers.
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
sae wis trainin new dugs tae perform auld tricks. Pat Duguid wis a
ion, sae transplant teams cud perform aside each ither. Gin they wa
2 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
atheran o dialect writers tae perform thir wark. Wir absolutely del
1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
perform tae worl' cless stannarts. Cu on page 13
arm fer Ulster-Scots ects tae perform langside the bes' military an on page 45

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