A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

place-names Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.1 0 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences108 0 0 2 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of place-names in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
the Scots version Dauvit. For place-names, it is recommendit that words on page 13
r, Scots affen eiks 'the' tae place-names, for an instance: on page 30

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
essentially freindly Scottish Place-Names News was in kinks aboot a 'fa on page 56

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
o the maist strikin aspecks o place-names in Scotland is the nummer o t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
tradeitional an richt forms o place-names in regional or minority langu
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
His project wis centred roon place-names. The braes, burns, craigs an
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
Hae ye seen oor map, wi place-names in #Scots? An there lairnin a (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
something creeping in wi wir place-names an it's no for da better.
My place-names book says it originates fae "

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