A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

commentary Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 4.8 1.6 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences139 1 2 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of commentary in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Mister Singh gied us a runnin commentary, It jist wisnae the same bein on page 164

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
. He also broke intae his ain commentary, “An’ it's Duncan oan the
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
rote this efter Bill’s last commentary, at the Melrose Sevens. Durin
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
The 2015 commentary (o coorse) ascribes male auth
We could gang on. Commentary on the ither anonymous poems
2 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
it. That steaming wuz good ?? commentary and awe. Tap bloke ??(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@BonnyriggRose guys the commentary team 2 day were top notch - (2021) twitter link
xactly - great work from the commentary team - really enjoyed the ba (2021) twitter link
watch forfar n lithgae wae no commentary - naw am no intae rip offs l (2021) twitter link

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
nner. I hid tae gee a running commentary masel. A neer spat a lung up (2020) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
hances at bean raed as bean a commentary on the language, a commentary
on the language, a commentary on Engliesh. An acause yir wr
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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
juist enjoyin a'body else's commentary on here. But yis, da big sex (2021) search twitter