Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

expletives	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	3.1	0	0	0	10.3	0
Number of occurrences	7	6	0	0	0	1	0
Number of authors	5	4				1

Occurrences of expletives 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

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
the loabby. There's a cry ay expletives fae ahent me as Tam stoats hi on page 8

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
i aw the force o the stream o expletives that wis comin oot his mouth. on page 48
jist aboot pick oot amang the expletives as he went his dinger. on page 53

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ngage seemt a bittie short on expletives. “Thy grannie haes verra pu
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
he loabby. There’s a cry ay expletives fae ahent me as Tam stoats hi
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
utterin a serious ae venomous expletives tae himsel. Ah reckon ah'd be
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Young’s expletives. The nixt tyme him an mei col
1 matches