A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nowadays Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 5.7 9 0 5.8 31 4.4
Number of occurrences2211 6 0 1 3 1
Number of authors12 7 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of nowadays in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tween you and the other boay. Nowadays though these wee mutant fuckw on page 69
lads the problem wae society nowadays is naeboady's goat any respec on page 140

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
benefitit the City o London, nowadays the world on page 27
n else that springs tae mind. Nowadays a great monie fowk seem tae b on page 50

2 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
r horizon. Lichts – no many nowadays an late on. Maist wunna light
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
A’m a new man nowadays. A’m still a bit shyer than
1 matches

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
y auld Das childhood stories. Nowadays, street fitbaw is rare. Strip (2021) twitter link

@g_hibby tweeted
And wi' the price o' haircuts nowadays.. I'm happy being a baldie... (2023) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
if this is whit fitbaws about nowadays - they kin keep it - pish l (2020) twitter link
it was - typical of society nowadays imo (2020) twitter link
our fm - too many yes people nowadays especially all the invited pe (2020) twitter link

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
an auld git bit its jist crap nowadays. Fars a yon gud films(2016) search twitter
e change oot o’ a pound coin nowadays. Canna even stretch as far as(2017) search twitter
ma auld pegs are nae as canny nowadays tae wak that far, mare say wa(2017) search twitter
icking those tags on the bins nowadays jist so they dinna have tae p(2017) search twitter
s good, nae that ?? ye get on nowadays we idiots howling away #bring(2018) search twitter
and 1 other occurrences.

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
o real person looks like that nowadays." on page 35

1 matches

Southern

The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
d drummers came oot o' there. Nowadays oov got the Scout Band and th
1 matches

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
Cauld looks different tae mei nowadays. They filled in the Cat's Pil
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
- jist the poet for the job nowadays, leading by example and rocki(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
for those is hardly ever used nowadays. I also wrankle a wee bit at (2020) search twitter