A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contracted Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 1 4.5 0 40.7 0 0
Number of occurrences122 3 0 7 0 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of contracted in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
But, contracted tae supply the convicks' food on page 67

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae the Rings only efter he's contracted an STD. What's his bloody nam on page 15

1 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
'At's fan I contracted i' German measles on page 67

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
only child at Bermuda. He’d contracted the fever fae the sojers he w
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
oo' implies at soonds is bøn contracted, bit dat isna da caess: da Sh on page 36
is wi da verb), an d'ir affen contracted, as shaan idda example paradi on page 69
BE FULL FORM CONTRACTED FORM on page 70
CONTRACTED AUXILIARY VERB on page 76
aed wi da pronoun alang wi da contracted negative on page 91

6 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
eyd wi da pronoun alang wi da contracted negative auxiliary:

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