Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

motto	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	3.1	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	7	6	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	5	4	1

Occurrences of motto 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

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
motto o impudent maniacal religious on page 28

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Cunts" is actually the school motto. A place where a square go wi on page 68

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
h Paul... Lean and mean is ma motto... ???? https://t.co/v6UcSpZA (2023) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
carry oan regardless thats ma motto - get eesell oan board broth (2021) twitter link
anything thats going thats my motto for now m8 (2020) twitter link
m is - and has aways been ma motto - join the club guys! (2020) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
t ye micht ca generous - his motto wis 'Value for Money', Dod sa on page 106

1 matches