A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

collective Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 10.1 1.6 19.9 23.2 0 17.7
Number of occurrences3019 1 2 4 0 4
Number of authors18 12 1 2 2 1

Occurrences of collective in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the graith fae fause king tae collective, rip up the plaids o the past on page 77

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Like collective unconscious, ken, if ye can on page 23

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
nguages is the expression o a collective identity an o a kenspeckle we on page 20

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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ax hunder year an briggin the collective geographical an social experi
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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
tenance. It also recognizes a collective responsibility, as called for
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Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
rse it's gaun tae gan tae oor collective heids. O coorse it'll imbue a
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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
But coronavirus haes set oor collective gas at a peep simply bi giein
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
een, as the craw flies, their collective thirst, a lump ay solid iron,
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
in somethin other than bein a collective ay condescendin arseholes, wh
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Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Autumn years which salved oor collective conscience.
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Lehane, Matt Tuim Tattie, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
o collective
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
. “Bit that’s - that’s collective suicide ...” he sayed.
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Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
kin penalty.’ he sais, an a collective groan goes roon the pub alang
es though; the hive mind; the collective soul ay the pub is in momenta
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Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
o takkin oorsels oot frae the collective lobbyin, advocacy an negotioa
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
the buzz aroond the National Collective events I gaed tae, the poster
a, Newsnet Scotland, National Collective, Scottish Evening News an ith
tland. The National, National Collective, Bella Caledonia, Wings Over
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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
icular whit I saw on National Collective’s “Yestival” tour an i
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Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
y if we’re talking aboot the collective ownership o the means o produ (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
collective realities, et cetera. I've go on page 58

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Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Across Kirkwall a collective shiver... on page 7

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ae coont nouns, mass nouns an collective nouns. Coont nouns is entitie on page 48

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Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
‘dialect’ here is laek a collective noun - a wird laek ‘watter
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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
cairry oot oor individual an' collective commitment tae oor identity b on page 4
* A Dance Collective tae bae fordered tae heft tea on page 8
maakin thair inpit intae oor collective wealtht o' culture. on page 15
* A Dance Collective tae heft teachin' the differ on page 44

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