A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

prefers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences32 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of prefers in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
n fact. The middle-class bore prefers rugby. But alas, it never cam on page 35

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
" that A think Scots spaekers prefers tae stick wi, an it seems uiz
1 matches

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s on gumtree fer sale! Seller prefers to sell as a pair bit wid acc(2019) search twitter