A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ish Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 4.8 3.2 9.9 5.8 21.9 0
Number of occurrences159 2 1 1 2 0
Number of authors12 6 2 1 1 2

Occurrences of ish in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
And yella-ish like Orkney cheese. on page 46

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'Ye mean it isna ho-ho-ish ony mair?' said Wee Grumphie on page 42

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Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
waw. When he'd made a muckle-ish hole, he crowled through it. on page 63

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
tae Canada. Lumberjack in Bri'ish Columbae. Coohaund in Alberta on page 16

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Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
hai cuidna swik the hempie ti ish but hiz
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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
ae oor ain goverment. A Sco’ish goverment,” Annie sayed.
Is that no spittin in Sco’ish folks’ faces, eh? Whan did
2 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
with a glottal stop (eg. Sco'ish instead o Scottish) in her sa(2018) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
and plooms in the mou stushie-ish stramash aboot it.(2020) search twitter

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Hud on...I'm 47(ish) and just found oot that the (2020) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
dIt Moor Park across the road ish wis where mah Uncle n Auntie (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
nd soonds pretty Central Belt-ish a lot o the time, and much o
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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Only 360 ish more sleeps til da next Shetl(2014) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@AidanReilly6 aboot £170 ish(2012) search twitter

@officialAliRed tweeted
rns are in bed. House is tidy(ish). Time for a wee cycle afore (2020) search twitter