A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

forties Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of forties in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
that auld. Mebbe in her early forties or thereaboots but ye wuid ha on page 56

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Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
where. A reckon he’s in his forties. Huffin’ and puffin’ as h
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Durham Got ma first ane in ma forties. Noo hae five. If ah had nair(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
dhoose Loch wan winter in the forties tae cut short his route deliv
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