A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

conventions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 6.2 0 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences1512 0 0 3 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of conventions in Corpus

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Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
times an siclik auld spellin conventions cannae aye be brocht bak inti on page 59

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Eik 2: Common spelling conventions on page 3
n, disordert Scots or use the conventions o Soothron screivings for tae on page 40
Eik 2: Common spelling conventions on page 62
, shares maist o the spelling conventions shawn abuin. The tradeetional on page 63

7 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ee acknowledgement o the auld conventions; cairit oot in an aroond the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ss masculinity man. Unwritten conventions established oer time that ur
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
conventions,
spellin conventions,
2 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Da follooin spelleen conventions is øsed ithin dis primer an on page 32
fun aawye ithin da community conventions, fir example blyde /blaɪd_/, on page 36

3 matches

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