A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

improvement Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences109 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors9 8 1

Occurrences of improvement in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ver present hint that aw sic 'improvement' cam thru England. This wey o on page 98

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
nd one for what could do with improvement. But remember, they have to h on page 22

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
n ma top half would o been an improvement. Even though Cathy knew that on page 39

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Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
Nithsdale, had seen a muckle improvement in hill pasture frae skailin on page 17

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
hard-neckit and heich-haunit "improvement." on page 69

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
der ideas sic as enclosure or improvement. Ilka intry on page 129

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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
rtunities they see for system improvement. Wi regaird for the pairts o
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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Improvement’s whit we’re aw’ aboot,
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
hite/blue - its certainly an improvement on the rusty mess it was befo (2021) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
gh for Glass, a great deal of improvement can come fae getting the seni (2021) twitter link