A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

darker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 1.5 6 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences93 4 1 1 0 0
Number of authors7 2 3 1 1

Occurrences of darker in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
at this time n the woods git darker outside. Wee Kenzie starts te on page 4
t intae the trees n under the darker canopy. Danny's handin fags o on page 47

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
sonal attacks huv been gittin darker wae each passin minute. It's on page 109

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
bring in little...' An syne a darker picter o hissel in a haal, he on page 30

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
En darker, darker, is the sky,
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
g made of dark stone and even darker shadows caused by the relucta
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and looming bigger the darker it got. on page 27

1 matches

Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
da mair da simmer wör by, da darker cam da ask, an traetnin, sam
1 matches

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