Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dizen	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	0.5	1.5	0	17.4	10.3	4.4
Number of occurrences	7	1	1	0	3	1	1
Number of authors	5	1	1		1	1	1

Occurrences of dizen in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
oot, ma hert gaun ten tae the dizen.
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
maist. There must have been a dizen smaa doors leading tae differ
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
He clickit his fingers an a dizen elves ran by. Dey lined up an
Waanderin trowe da sna wis a dizen reindeer. Of coorse, da maist
2 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
as wan fiddler but dere wis a dizen. You could feel da groond sha
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
dividit intil, ay, mebbies ae dizen
1 matches

Ulster

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
He ate six hunner dizen
1 matches