A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

metters Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 0.5 1.6 29.8 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences81 1 3 0 0 3
Number of authors7 1 1 3 2

Occurrences of metters in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
e fir the Croon or no, bit it metters thit Scotland's ain airts an
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
burned offerin". Noo tae mak metters worse Timmer Tam jist
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ust flaked clean oot. Tae mak metters warse, Bella soon saa the the on page 72

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
hir maed hid, or if hid ivver metters. on page 49

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
O metters o the heart on page 122

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
"It metters a brev bit tae mae," said Ali on page 53
"What metters it hoo far wae go?" haes scaa on page 101

2 matches

Reynolds, Charlie An Appeal frae tha hairt, (North Antrim Speak 2010) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
ian whaur they staun on these metters afore ye gie yer voat tae ony
1 matches

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