A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

competitions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 1.5 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences74 1 0 0 0 2
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of competitions in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an it wisnae lik wan ae they competitions where they tell yi the answer on page 77

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'Poetry competitions,' he scoffs. 'Gosh. You can h on page 40

1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
even gone and played solos it competitions but there is nae a chance at
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
For mair particlars aboot the competitions see:- http:\\www.lallans.co.u
1 matches

Doric

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
is the same wi the individual competitions an the concert wi the winners
1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
parades/competitions, bit thaire bes little sense on page 39
pipe ban' competitions, maakin o' items laike ban' u on page 68

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