A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

idioms Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 3.2 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences76 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of idioms in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lexities and potential of the idioms of Scottish speech'. The medi on page 44

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
T HOO YE PIT IT. Oor sheed on Idioms, wrutten bi Christie Williams on page 5
it. Please see the Grammar an Idioms sheeds for mair information. on page 13

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Idioms/seyins
rt English has monie distinct idioms and seyins, monie o which com
2 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
aw tae dae a feature on Scots idioms sic as this yin thit aab'dy c(2019) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
lairnt me a wheen o words and idioms in #ulsterscots! Thank you to(2020) search twitter