A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

diminutive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0 1.5 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences50 1 0 4 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of diminutive in Corpus

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Doric

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used bi English spikkers as a diminutive o job. A sair ane fir fowk th(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ną 'tae smore, trottle'. Da diminutive endeen - kin shaas at sumthin on page 42

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