Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

deu	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	12.5	0	0	397.5	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	40	0	0	40	0	0	0
Number of authors	7			7

Occurrences of deu in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
ious face, "Goad lass wae can deu noathing wi that I doot, wae' on page 14
k her right oot afore wae can deu anything wi that, as thoo can on page 15
an middling groggy, an hid'll deu fine tae lay her oot on!" on page 16
r will thoo no!" "Oh aye, aal deu that," I replied chucklan inw on page 18
s day I thowt id wis time tae deu something aboot the thing, so on page 20
Also on pages 21, 79, 87, 98
10 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
r your new CD and you couldna deu that while I on page 84

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
n, an waits. Thir notheen tae deu but wait. His een spairk. on page 24
aald waarmth at's notheen tae deu wi belief an aatheen tae deu on page 33
ersel whan sheu's notheen tae deu. on page 58
an Astrid's forgotten hoo tae deu this. Sheu swanders trou spei on page 63
e o fock, that gret a lot tae deu, thoo disno hiv tae be." Darl on page 67
Also on pages 76, 96, 103, 104, 123, 126, 153, 157
16 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
Astrid’s forgotten hoo tae deu this
that much tae deu, thoo deusno hiv
2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
ses aboot whit language might deu i the time in atween. Ye can
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ian landscapes cheust as thay deu utopian possiebilities, bit w
1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
est Home at the backend. Whit deu ither Reevlers think?

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
Orkney words and phrases tae deu wae leisure - games, sports,

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
a time whin some folk couldno deu without haein some dry tang t
a peedie rest afore gaan tae deu ether things aboot the hoose
2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
thir aen daiälekt yeus. Fok deu hid, konshislee an unkonshisl
ir oot whit A’m traiän tae deu.)
hin, bit hid’s gei fikl tae deu, an taks a gei talentid an tr
d depends on whit ye want tae deu, whit ye want tae mak oot. We
4 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
ees whit we see, an whan they deu, they blame some ither een. T (2020) twitter link