A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

motives Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of motives in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae questionin the boay's true motives fur volunteerin tae coach bai on page 109

1 matches

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Ballad o an Irish student, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
His motives belang tae anither tale,
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
s) wis stertit by Sara, who's motives I'd never impugn by the way, (2022) twitter link

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
s, a good man without devious motives. A wee bit o a drooth, I'll g on page 32

1 matches

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