A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

seventy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 10.8 6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2721 4 1 0 0 1
Number of authors14 9 3 1 1

Occurrences of seventy in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
p there. Ah've been tryin fur seventy-odd year. He either disnae li on page 8

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
how can they exaggerate that? Seventy, to be precise' on page 36

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'Seventy somethin.' Nacbody said onyth on page 1

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
powerin seventy looms an a workforce on page 23

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
soon made her move. She spent seventy two pound aw in: she bought a on page 53
Ah said, How much. She said, Seventy pound. Ah said, Aye awright, on page 78
said Yvonne got seventy-two percent ah nearly cheered on page 169

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Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Clydeside work-in in nineteen seventy-wan when Jimmy Reid gave his
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Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s just another two hunner an seventy-five tae go an we’re aw squ
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t ah kin of course but ah’m seventy wan years of age. Ah’ll huv
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Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
nly ticket ah hud in nineteen seventy four) wis doon the stair. Hid
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Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
us is gonnae mak aeyhing near seventy the way we’re abusing wur l
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Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
' jeest et ri askin' price a' seventy five quid. Ri lums wis aw blo
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lnerable person - he is over seventy ...”
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Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Then, oan the seventy-second minute, the substitute
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
orious day in August, back in seventy-nine. Aye, it’s a queer thi
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
there. Ah’ve been tryin fur seventy odd year. He either disnae li
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ly, utterly, arse over elbow, seventy seven ways tae Strichen and b(2020) search twitter

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Weel, she wiz jist seventy, on page 64

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
the same money he wid hae got seventy bags fae Jonsar
mind awa back aboot nineteen seventy echt, fin we
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Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
Seventy per cent o Scots weemin wark,
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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Fur ah'm seventy three - and me lad's only ni on page 38

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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
o' Norlin Airlan at hes aboot seventy bans, Flute Ban' Association on page 39

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