A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

preferable Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences32 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of preferable in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Cause sometimes frogs are preferable compared wae prince. uncharmi on page 72

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
se, grey, familiar sky is far preferable tae an immense, endiess, expe on page 3

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
icate thing an that it wud be preferable if hir hindquarters wur posit on page 38

1 matches

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