A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

difficulty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 7.2 4.5 0 0 41.3 17.7
Number of occurrences2514 3 0 0 4 4
Number of authors15 9 2 1 3

Occurrences of difficulty in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
s but it's obviously wi great difficulty cos there's fuckin shite oan on page 61

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
out-throu thair denner athout difficulty or devaul, reminiscin an lauc on page 25

1 matches

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e demonstrate tae them is the difficulty an importance o leid choice f on page 35

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
The difficulty, as aye, is in wirkin oot if on page 3

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'"Difficulty",' Nigel said. 'Aw the bairns on page 140
want tae hear the song aboot "difficulty"?' on page 141

5 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
The main difficulty wi the approaches taen bi the
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
se, which wis liable tae be a difficulty for a scriever sae universall
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
r in nummer. It wis wi muckle difficulty that the weavers got thair st
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
a differ tae oor society, the difficulty is gettin the baw rollin. Hoo
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
kent them weel so he’d nae difficulty in kennin which ane o the reb

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
at an simply arranged; e only difficulty wis, at she hedna e peediest on page 38
E main difficulty Alice found at first wis in m on page 79

2 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
lance if she ended up wi real difficulty breathin.
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
y an simply arranged; th only difficulty was, that she hed no th teens on page 39
hlice caught th bairn wi some difficulty, as eet was a funny-shaped we on page 60
Th chief difficulty Ahlice funnd at firrst was in on page 81
n o thum wi th ither: th only difficulty was, that hur flamingo was aw on page 84

4 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
The biggest difficulty Alice fun at furst wus managi on page 82
o thim wi the ither: the only difficulty wus hir flamingo wus awa acro on page 85

2 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
model he will show yae, some difficulty met, on page 43

1 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
at Ulster-Scots can gie. The difficulty o' on page 64

1 matches

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