A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

rain's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of rain's in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ayr the watter, an YASS! The rain's oan, obscurin the bridge's fa on page 3

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Granny'd put a flower in it. Rain's batterin off the windows like on page 36

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
wee bit o' a breeze here noo, rain's off, blue skies and the sun i (2022) twitter link
e ye Easy.. Hope yer guid?... Rain's off here the noo.. T.Shirt we (2022) twitter link
ae knock the 'gither, and the rain's off the noo. I can see a bit (2022) twitter link

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
oh for goodness sake that rain's nae takin its time tae cum do(2011) search twitter