A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

extinction Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.7 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of extinction in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ames currently unner threat o extinction throu anglicisation. Forby th on page 14
leid tae the leet o language extinction an gar anither rich an distin on page 15

3 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Time tae mairch oot o oor climate comfort zones, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
’ve jist stertit tae follae Extinction Rebellion Scotland, an ma fee
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
Darwinian gate tae linguistic extinction begins no wi a heidstane, but
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
r the very sam. Persecuted to extinction by 1916, brought back fae 74 (2020) search twitter