A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

symbols Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 5.1 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1310 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of symbols in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
siblike early style Pechtish symbols, the ettle o which seems tae
on fur centuries, wi Pechtish symbols eikit on tae Christian sculpt
the maist kenable o Pechtish symbols, sic as the mirror and cresce
Stane in Angus, aft kythe as symbols on Pechtish stanes, myntin th
s is their byordinar Pechtish symbols. These are a unique reenge o
6 matches

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
etland. They uised a series o symbols, wha’s literal meanin is ti
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“The third ane, gies the symbols,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
raille, and will also include symbols where appropriate."
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
aper covered in footprints an symbols that looked lik her ither nam
1 matches

Doric

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
ggles an' arras an' signs an' symbols, but nae WORDS. Naebody hid t
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
in a simmilar wey that ither symbols o oor national identity sic a
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
nt fricatives' an da phonetic symbols fir dem is /θ/ fir da voicel on page 27

1 matches

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