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Use in varieties of Scots

informal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 6.7 4.5 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences2013 3 0 4 0 0
Number of authors9 5 3 1

Occurrences of informal in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Scotland, there wis juist the informal testimony o teachers tae upha
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Thochts o Speakin Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2001) Central, prose
ak Scots in formal or e'en in informal forgaitherins o thair peers?
1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
clesses or informal networks, there wis concern t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Januar will tak the form o an informal Burns Nicht, mair lik a Burns
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
aur fae monie stakehauders in informal consultation up tae noo. This
t claer in Scots Government's informal consultation wirk, whaurin qu
tit an owerseen hae cam up in informal consultations tae, an kennin
Informal Discussions
There been informal discussions wi Scots stakehau
5 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
ony chance o loupin oot o the informal an intae the formal airts, it
the Scots language oot o the informal an intae the formal airts the
2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
I dout, frae the raither owre-informal register it’s sae aesie as
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
eutral modern Scots; guid fur informal forby mair formal registers.
1 matches

Doric

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
randad, I thocht it wis dress informal. Ye said ti wear jeans." on page 94

1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
s aa cam aboot in the 70s, wi informal sessions at the famed Hole-in
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
re immediate / spontaneous / 'informal' / friend group the medium, t (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
2 du (informal)/you (polite) dee (informal)/ on page 52
2 deesel (informal)/yirsel (polite) dee (informa on page 58

4 matches

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