A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

playground Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.7 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences65 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of playground in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an in thi playground, then meh tongue on page 56

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ie, A wis stan’in’ in the playground o’ Musselburgh Grammer, on
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ur playin fitba in the school playground at mornin playtime, that’s
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
ete started getting it in the playground, and before long they wouldna
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
erent language outside in the playground than you did inside .. you ha (2019) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Calum an Juliet's, favourite playground if da surface wis frozen, whi on page 93

1 matches

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