A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

couldny Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 6.9 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1313 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 6

Occurrences of couldny in Corpus

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Central

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Still Ah couldny find the sound o him on page 96

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
e Scots words (e.g. bi wirtin couldny raither nor a tradeetional Sc on page 40

2 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
after aw, ma teachers knew ah couldny get far in life cos eh ma tes
An a couldny keep anything in ma heed, ma
at ma gleamin fitbaw boots ah couldny believe it, ma knees were sha
3 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
words tae explain it, but ah couldny. Ah looked at ma fingers whic
Ah couldny wait tae show them tae me da,
ong ago it wis that tight she couldny get it aff.
Ah wis sure. Ah couldny bear the fact we’d never sa
4 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
@Rab_Dickson1 @meljomur Couldny haud a caunle tae David Atten (2021) twitter link

@MartinBroon tweeted
Although A overstayed a day,A couldny get Myself vertical oan time (2019) search twitter
ndbov Aye! Danny whitshisname couldny manage anything tae save hims(2019) search twitter

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