A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

rarer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.5 1.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences85 1 0 2 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of rarer in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ird linguistic diversity. The rarer the thing faced wi extinction on page 15

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Aye vauntie ower the rarer breeds on page 3

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
ut the ar the ither kind, the rarer kind, the kind that tells a p
last saicont, an the'r a faur rarer genre whaur they try an tell
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
n gie her a name. It’s faur rarer, hooivver, that we can pit a
1 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
ough, it wad be fine for some rarer kynes o seeds tae be plantit,
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
came and ID'd. Dey were a lot rarer here ahem years ago.(2020) search twitter
@docsuzy So een o yun even rarer days whaur Da Ness is actuall(2020) search twitter