A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

department Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.2 6.9 5.9 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences2414 4 0 2 0 0
Number of authors13 7 2 2

Occurrences of department in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ny shapes and colours but the department ae work and pensions ain tast on page 116

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tside D stairs an the Science Department. Whit is it, ah said. See you on page 37
ad an accident in the Science Department: Christopher, he said, Has su on page 77
n when he worked at the Parks Department. Yir no really daein much in on page 97
the drain ootside the Science department, an then ah felt dead guilty on page 99
Ma da worked at the Parks Department since he left schog at sixtee on page 100
Also on pages 138, 161, 169
8 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ur typin up the minutes o the Department Meeting afore he got a row fa on page 37

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
The Scots Office Education Department (1993) Curriculum and Assessm
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n ahint it is Chapter 4, ‘A Department of Scottish Literature’, an
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
15. A wis the only one in the department on a Friday efternoon (ye did
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Department of English Language,
1 matches

Doric

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
, an at that time wir Science Department got a special award o some si on page 50
s on the roof o the technical department. Noo, it's been said that a p on page 51

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d intae the gates o the Roads Department’s yard at Boyndie and mysel
into the gateway of the Roads Department’s yard at Boyndie, which ha
2 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
anks tae Dr. Mikael Parkvall (Department of Linguistics, University of on page 19

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“This is the most secret department of Santa’s village,” decl
1 matches

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