A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

parasitic Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences32 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of parasitic in Corpus

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Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ster. It micht e’en be a “parasitic second-language variety”, b
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
n Queens an aw the rest o the parasitic tribe ...”
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
@Julieredwing It's semi parasitic helping keep doon on da grass(2019) search twitter