A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sortae Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 9.3 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1818 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 6

Occurrences of sortae in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
sayin tae hersel, in a dreamy sortae wey, "Dae cats eat bats? Dae on page 10
findin it awfy nice (it hid a sortae mixed flavour ae cherry-tart, on page 13

2 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
manoeuvre intae position and sortae hover over the pan. But then on page 61

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
In this sortae situation the last cunt yae w on page 65
fae Argos. This boozer is the sortae place yae widnae inflict oan on page 67
back at The Carousel. It's a sortae tradition, ken? And oan that on page 98
ah try no tae listen tae that sortae hing. Better jist judge fur m on page 101
he boay says, in an impatient sortae wey. on page 104
Also on pages 107, 116, 132, 156, 198
11 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
d ae the needle. It's a weird sortae beige colour, which ah wisnae on page 2

1 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
o ye micht win throch tae sum sortae unnerstanin o the warth o the on page 59

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
banana and a coffee and a big sortae tattie scone hingy fae a vend
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
Folk chynge their name tae a sortae spooky pun fir Halloween.(2019) search twitter

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