A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ourselves Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.1 3 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences106 2 0 2 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of ourselves in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
me clean n make it easier fur ourselves, we sit silently n wait fur t on page 54
We look among ourselves n McGiver laughs tae the two on page 59

2 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
evir did, we're aye leein tae ourselves, creatin tales and legends me on page 45

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
n, as keen as we are tae wash ourselves in this alter ego ae the usua
at time. We played catch, hud ourselves a nice picnic, took a few mem
2 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
is gettin better. Just gettin ourselves ready to go oot fir a wee swa (2022) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Him, an ourselves, an id. on page 116

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n an ah had a cosy day in tae ourselves. She cam back wi aa these bub(2019) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ith Casino. Da whole beach to ourselves and two shalders https://t.co(2019) search twitter
b quiz. Rather impressed with ourselves.(2013) search twitter