A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

can’t Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.6 6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences115 4 1 0 0 1
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of can’t in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@atouchofsense My son at uni can’t even visit us. I can’t visit(2020) search twitter
k you. Aberdour beach, even I can’t get it wrong with my auld pho(2020) search twitter
art fae you fuds that say you can’t wear a mask for what ever rea(2020) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
thing where it turns out folk can’t make it. Will be nice t(2019) search twitter

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
before jointing for cooking. Can’t seem to find any reference to(2018) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
t can turn the game over, you can’t attack wi oot the ba. First s (2022) twitter link
e you? He’s nae good enough, can’t be trusted because he wis imp (2020) twitter link
s @PTFCGraeme @BBCSportScot I can’t help think that reconstructio (2020) twitter link

Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
a that it’s ‘slang’ and so can’t be a different language. Scot (2021) twitter link

Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
@HelenMcclements I can’t wait to visit again! May have(2020) search twitter