A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

idiom Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.6 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences97 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of idiom 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
r anither rich an distinctive idiom gang oot o the warld. Let us on page 15

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
anna lairn a lot o grammar an idiom aff o'd. The best Scots prose
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
n gate wi spellin, diction an idiom (no that there’s no guid mo
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
at sentences are biggit), and idiom (seyins, specific yaise o wir
gy forby US-specific grammar, idiom and vocabulary (e.g. fall/aut
ammar, syntax, vocabulary and idiom. It is gey closely relatit ta
3 matches

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n lairn mair o the grammar an idiom o Scots(2020) search twitter

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
e monie o us it’s the local idiom abeen the graimmar an vocabul
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
screeds are wrote in a antrin idiom o English. Wir uissed tae hea
1 matches

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