A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contains Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.3 1.6 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1310 1 0 1 0 1
Number of authors11 8 1 1 1

Occurrences of contains in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ead it, said Yvonne. The song contains the lyrics, on page 169

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
t!), this edeitioun o Lallans contains wark bi on page 9

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
This text contains the wirds perteign and actour on page 20

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Scotland, an this buik, that contains airguably some o his greatest on page 133

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
on o the warks o Jeames Hogg, contains twa versions o his first wech on page 137
he Appendix ti this edeitioun contains a whein letters concernin Hog on page 141

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
paragraph contains a commitment tae increased fu
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
[T]he dictionary [DOST] contains thousands of antedatings of S
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Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
since the press in ma kitchen contains baith
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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
o ane Gentle Woman”, which contains the lines:
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Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
r braakfist. This sclabdadder contains 14g o sugar. Ah’ll be haen a(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
s box. I have no idea what it contains, it's the one thing she alway on page 24

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Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
@roddecks As long as it only contains blue begs. We're nat animals,(2019) search twitter