A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

avail Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.6 4.5 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences127 3 0 0 1 1
Number of authors11 6 3 1 1

Occurrences of avail in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
Bit whit kin wan puir voice avail Against three tongues thegith on page 5

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
uggestit at she micht want ti avail hersel o the monie resources on page 22

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Tae nae avail (despite sic japes). on page 10

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e king, but it wis aw tae nae avail. The rule o law maun aye be s on page 128

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Her tears avail her nithing. on page 26
Ti nae avail - life had fleed. on page 35

2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
wis telt it would be tae nae avail. Ye were a died man, whitivir
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
in we eis barrel, bit tae nay avail. Broosie pype's up, "Let me e on page 33

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Yit what can wan poor voice avail Against three tongues tigithi on page 5

1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
in a snare but it was tae no avail it looked as though they were
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Yet whit can yin pair voice avail on page 5

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
Yit what can yin peur voice avail on page 5

1 matches

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