A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

usage Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.1 0 0 17.4 20.7 0
Number of occurrences116 0 0 3 2 0
Number of authors9 6 1 2

Occurrences of usage in Corpus

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Central

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Durham whaur they deed o ill-usage an starvation. They're buirit on page 35

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nce amang thir plays in their usage here. Robert McCleish and Ena
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
h devices became in universal usage. It was small. Compact, as wa
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
questioned it. It fell oot o usage as Ah got aulder, so it didna(2020) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
‘like’ in Scots, like? Does usage, like, vary in frequency acco(2019) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
raw example o Scots in modern usage. Teachers - Tweet yer lesson (2017) twitter link

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ds is recordit in Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect (GUSD
n doon - laek in Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, or o
Ayrshire speech, Caithnessian usage, Lallans or Doric.
3 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
le on"? Nup, completely wrong usage.(2020) search twitter

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
The simple answer is language usage amongst NE and Sooth is a muc(2020) search twitter