A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

possess Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.6 1.5 19.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences105 1 2 1 0 1
Number of authors9 4 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of possess in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
unk ae some lord in order tae possess an intellect. And that aw yae on page 93

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
He's crazy ti possess me nou, on page 35

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Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
reducible notion that nae man possess the grunds for thinkin hissel
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s fae ony o her hames. “You possess the warld,” he sayed, ettli
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Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
possess her nichts on page 27

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
e be. Nor, it seems, dae they possess the integrity that these work
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Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
ned use of language than they possess”. Heu’s eequalee hersh on
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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
est partial rules of grammar, possess a small vocabulary, are unwri
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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
dation o the ails that weemen possess. on page 51

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