A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bairn'll Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.6 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences75 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of bairn'll in Corpus

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Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
. Whit's gaun tae happen? The bairn'll tell her mither I gien her so on page 43
Take it frae me, Jessie, the bairn'll cope better if ye gie the wee on page 64
puttin it in the coffin, the bairn'll no see it. Are ye finished ye on page 66
a read when he wis alive. The bairn'll nivver notice. I'll cross it on page 69

5 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
lips let'm faither a son the bairn'll hae ma name A pree Yer mulk o on page 3

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
on, voyd hulks. So mibbe this bairn'll waant tae brak the next speed on page 38

1 matches

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