Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

inspector	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.6	3.1	22.6	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	21	6	15	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	3	3

Occurrences of inspector in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nemployment office’; parish inspector ‘an officer who attempts to
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
in o Gogol’s The Government Inspector, wi its theme o ill-deeds in
d Byrne’s in The Government Inspector is a faur, faur cry frae the
2 matches

Lehane, Matt Psstt, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
I’m the government inspector
I’m the government inspector wi
I’m the government inspector wi
3 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
'Weel, A'm Inspector Mundie an es is P.C. Peerie. on page 79
'm askin masel noo', says the Inspector, 'is fither we're leukin for on page 80
h tak place?' speirt a dootfu Inspector Mundie. on page 82
t roddit, there cam a caal on Inspector Mundie's mobile phone. on page 83

9 matches

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
onything - but my da, Chief Inspector Mackintosh tae gie him his pr on page 74

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
Inspector McChubb’s report reads like
ed between masel an the Chief Inspector at Aiberdeen’s Bucksburn in
liftit up poles tae be safe. Inspector Tait wis armed wi a rifle, wh
n a roughly single file ahind Inspector Tait, they came upon a crudel
s an the polis, maist notably Inspector McChubb, has waned, despite t
5 matches