A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

encounter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 2.1 1.6 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences74 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of encounter in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
encounter whilst oan a stroll through t on page 169

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
reached my ears upon a chance encounter wi a mutual acquaintance. She
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tit be him, feart o haein tae encounter him. She needit time tae get
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
oot the scottish in a classic encounter - a (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
interruption inte his amorous encounter, stairtit te gurr an yap his on page 33

1 matches

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Kloss Encounter on page 136

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
tlandWild my best photo o wir encounter wi da orca. Not quite up to m(2017) search twitter