A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

confident Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.6 14.4 14.4 19.9 11.6 0 8.8
Number of occurrences4227 9 2 2 0 2
Number of authors30 18 7 1 2 2

Occurrences of confident in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
that wide, bit she goat mair confident as she went oan. Her listener on page 102

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hey" he asked. Aw gloatin and confident that this wis jist another gl on page 99
e ae weeks. Growin ever maire confident as each day passes. It's no l on page 156
maire confident wae his words than ah coulda on page 190

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
pure gomach. Miss Honey felt confident that she'd hae nae bother con on page 85
He seemed tae be gettin mair confident as he gaed alang. 'He's daein on page 122
blythe and confident in hersel and aw o a sudden s on page 161

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nt ae the whole class. Ah wis confident ah'd done awright, except fur on page 169

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Ah'm no so sure. Ah'm mair confident writin in ma ain tongue, but on page 36

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
confident in her hert. on page 30

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Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
sae the least, ah'm no muckle confident.
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Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
s messy, I’m nae. She’s confident, I’m nae. Although we share
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Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
markie an ither places shaw a confident fermin an fishin fowk wha tra
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
a mair conscious, informed an confident electorate an a Scotland that
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Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
less Scots in the mixture. A confident Scot shid be able tae command
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ae the hill .... Whan she wis confident that she wadna be heard be on
like for him. Confident noo, he tane some byordnar le
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Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae the table wae the drinks, confident an assured. Ye kin say whit y
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Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
cud eat ‘er alive. She wis confident she widnae face the same fate
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McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
affeck fowk dae-tae-day. Hoo confident are thae fowk o a gamble on L
ly dinna think onieane can be confident aboot kennin whit comes next.
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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
tin Na. Mibbies gin fowk felt confident wi their Scots identity, they
o this wad shairly be a mair confident an multicultural, representat
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ut please do not worry. I’m confident it’s merely IBS’’.
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
sudden ah’ve lept up maire confident than ever. ‘’ Ah fuckin k
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@annieones tweeted
tha ye noo feel sae mich mair confident. Go ye hen, braw ???????????? (2021) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
how I speak...' Are folk mair confident, even defiant aboot speakin S (2020) twitter link

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
quines: aa bonnie, clivver an confident. Ma cousins Ellen, Shirley an on page 57

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
tin te feel a wee bittie mair confident. "It's Stevie aat's the singe on page 59

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Banff Academy Aiberdeenshire Bairns an Young Fowk’s Chairter , (GIRFEC 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
mination. Encourage us tae be confident in fa wi are as weel as foo w
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Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
h use ah the time! Yur such a confident quiney, and your determined t
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The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
ing. Still, I canna say I’m confident Sonja’s is a viable busines
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@72redz1903 tweeted
inna try too hard, be yirsel, confident, forthright and some ‘natura (2022) twitter link
that can come oot wi the ba, confident enough to engage the oppositi (2020) twitter link
ng min. ‘Scots’ need tae be confident and own their past in all asp (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
on yer stagger. Fit happened? Confident for Saturday?(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
ful force indeed - supremely confident in voice, and wae an extensiv on page 1

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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
l language wae a full, crisp, confident voice – withoot the least p
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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
. Pitten idderwise, fokk at's confident i dir language is mair wint t on page 9

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Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
ny faer. In me haed I wis dis confident, untouchable super-bitch. For
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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
baecum a culturally an' leid confident adult lee'in in a Norlin Airl on page 22

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@the_gellick tweeted
A wee ghaist story for mair confident Ulster Scots: the likes o the (2014) twitter link

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