A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

colloquial Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 6.7 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1413 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of colloquial in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lay an ithers intil a vibrant colloquial an demotic Scots. on page 40

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
blad ad hoc frae leeterary or colloquial styles whaniver the needcessi
a’) siccan maks pits ower a colloquial register – ane at’s obvio
slang. But hale langages haes colloquial an slang registers as weel as
lly” micht be juist as guid colloquial Scots as ‘I don’t wanna w
e’s farm no more’ is guid colloquial American, but nane o thaim is
6 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
like. Auld farrant an recent colloquial Scots baith haes thair place,
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
the match wi the skirl o the colloquial language in the original was
1 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ture ayont the couthie an the colloquial. Aifter aw, naebodie can norm
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
yin: this ane’s a bit mair colloquial, but aye neutral eneuch. A pr
wan: maist colloquial o aw, and wi a strang central
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
il) can mean ‘penis’ in a colloquial context; which is pleyed on,
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Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
mae heid shired'. This great colloquial Ulster-Scots expression means(2020) search twitter