A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

compete Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 3.2 1.6 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences96 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of compete in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
is isn't right. Men shouldn't compete against women in sports like on page 12

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ternate policy pit forrit tae compete agin the rampant free-mairket on page 111
o geography - tho we cannae compete wi Spain or Italy or Greece i on page 133

2 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
But wha can compete wi a tredsman whae wants neit on page 43

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
eatest prize, your picked tae compete,
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ablishment, they simply canna compete wi the SNP, nae maitter hoo m
1 matches

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
on rent a mooth is trying tae compete wee yon mannie fae the Pavili(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
rough the skull-sized window, compete on page 25

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ü complained, "I just cannot compete." on page 15

1 matches

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