A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

blackface Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0.5 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences31 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of blackface in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
The grazins wad tak a score o blackface lambin yowes an three or fowe on page 50

1 matches

Doric

@glenlivetloon tweeted
Mibbe bit mair o a chav an i Blackface bit she'll dee gran.(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
led millennial' fir tryin tae blackface should be banned fae Up Helly(2021) search twitter