A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

contradiction Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 0 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences74 0 0 3 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of contradiction in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Thare's a douce contradiction on page 33

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t form. Is that no a bit ae a contradiction anyway, ah said, A hospital t on page 152

2 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
lanations chynge the inherent contradiction o wantin tae repeople laund w
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
on can say dis ithoot faire o contradiction, caase ‘Shetland dialect’
thin a dialect wid be anidder contradiction in terms. Sae dis problem o d
2 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
Da self-contradiction is brawly funny
1 matches

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