Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

expenses	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.9	3	0	0	5.8	10.3	0
Number of occurrences	13	6	0	0	1	1	0
Number of authors	8	5			1	1

Occurrences of expenses in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
She's nae pairty nyaff in expenses-peyed suit, on page 77

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Juist fill oot the 'Expenses Claim'! on page 94

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
suit. The job isnae peyed but expenses for materials an postage can
for ocht tae dae wi siller or expenses.
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ctions for entertainment, the expenses or trouble of the person acti
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ddle class cunts go fur an aw expenses paid trip abroad. In search a
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ppit when he offered me an aa expenses paid trip tae Lapland. A’ll
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
piece i his car, tae hain his expenses. Hei wis ae man wi ae hertie
1 matches