A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hesitation Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 6.2 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1212 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors10 10

Occurrences of hesitation in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
up fae the deck. There's nae hesitation. on page 19

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Withoot onie hesitation on page 22

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
papers taegether says withoot hesitation "What wis it a mercy killin?" on page 63
Withoot a moment's hesitation he gees me a swift right hand on page 112

2 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
t shame, wioot fear, an wioot hesitation. That's yin o the reasons ah'
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tell by his demeanour an the hesitation tae answer, that there’s ma
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Nae hesitation,
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tit at the accident an at his hesitation.
] lugs,” she replied athoot hesitation.
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McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
First an foremaist, I hae nae hesitation ava i walcomin this Scots ver
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Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
‘Richt.’ A wee hesitation. ‘A huvnae spoken tae onieb
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ly voted yes then without any hesitation - unlike half the scots who (2020) twitter link

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