A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fondness Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences63 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of fondness in Corpus

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Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
an fondness tae mind his land. on page 28

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d tell he looked back oan wae fondness. By the wey his puss wid beam on page 86

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Ah haed a fondness for the kye sae wad hing aboo
1 matches

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
sameness aboot it. It's their fondness fur goulash that does it. Ah' on page 40

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ying up the boats due tae his fondness fer a nap! Well done. Can I g(2018) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Da hound has a fondness for long lies, which suits me(2014) search twitter