Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

backgrun	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5	7.2	3	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	16	14	2	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	12	10	2

Occurrences of backgrun in Corpus

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Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - Joco Geordie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
uithfast an leal, bidin i the backgrun but aye ready tae pit on the on page 10

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
iscussion o the International Backgrun on page 3
iscussion o the International Backgrun on page 17

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
stushies o the time furneis a backgrun tae Agnes Lyle's chyce o sang on page 69

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
come, Jillings gaes throu the backgrun tae economic an political che on page 110

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
nou be spunkit up. Again the backgrun o a Scottish Govrenment on page 8

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
oon the year 1899-1904 ar the backgrun tae this novella. Insichts in on page 120

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Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ic sang or poesie, for aw his backgrun. on page 127

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
he poems here hes Africa as a backgrun. The white dresses o the menf on page 91

2 matches

gov.scot Biggin a strang future for Gaelic an Scots, (Scottish Government 2022) Central, government
Backgrun
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - The Man Wha Jeopardeized The Continued Existence O The Universe, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
made an oorie backgrun for the still swaws o skinkli
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Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
lassical muisic playin in the backgrun. An its aw gaen tae be presee
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
her, maybes there wis a lot o backgrun distraction; she wasna shair.
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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
romuntic meesic playin in the backgrun, an the soun o folk scrattin on page 40

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
c_Ally Canna wait tae see yer backgrun - Gothic? Tannadice? A big F (2020) twitter link