A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

elaborate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.6 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences75 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of elaborate in Corpus

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Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n 17th centuries, the wey tae elaborate the vernacular was duntit oot
stauns oot for his ettle tae elaborate Scots – an Scots speceifica
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wine-colourt ledder tunic, wi elaborate toolin, bit her troosers an b
derthals wis pairt o a really elaborate expiriment. Gin somebody had
y on her feet, an made her an elaborate boo.
3 matches

Doric

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Turra grannie makin soup, her elaborate yarns aboot my great-great-un on page 25

1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
I ken a man who will. Can you elaborate @shetlandnature?(2020) search twitter