A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

expand Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 2.1 3.2 19.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences94 2 2 0 0 1
Number of authors9 4 2 2 1

Occurrences of expand in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
had tae change; had tae grow, expand. . . encroach even. Only by h
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
expand their vocabulary
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
’s wooden, there a nightmare. Expand and contract by the seasons. (2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
ier Yep! ( Was wantin tae tre expand but braindead, now ad oan bus(2015) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r man's ootburst. "Ah wint te expand ma mind...broaden ma horizons on page 25

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
tae expand their margins on page 8

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
his fortune bit he wanted tae expand And he needed wan more whizz- on page 68

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
There’s an urgent need tae expand the possibilities o whit can
1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
er-Scotch shud bae hefted tae expand interpretive sign waark. on page 9

1 matches

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