A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

preserve Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.8 9.6 1.6 0 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences2118 1 0 0 0 2
Number of authors16 14 1 1

Occurrences of preserve in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
"The Guid Lord preserve us, Edam, frae deivils like J on page 61

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
well Goad preserve us frae the cooncil, on page 48

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
rtance is that the auld leids preserve o no the jist the vyce 9 the on page 66

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
No juist the preserve o 'John Highlandman', on page 15
Desperately trying tae preserve his brood, on page 19

2 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
commonties has the richt tae preserve their linguistic an cultural on page 22

1 matches

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Scots for. Are we warkin tae preserve the dialecks o Shetland, the on page 108

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
“through language, people preserve their community’s history,
1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
No juist the preserve o ‘John Highlandman’:
Desperately tryin tae preserve his brood,
2 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
disnae mean that Scots is the preserve o Nationalists any mair than
any mair than English is the preserve o Unionists. Scots belongs ta
2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
cule an mockery. That wis the preserve ay poofs an burds.
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
preserve a daud
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
haed aye been telt wis the preserve o the USSR, Aist Germany, Nor
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
furthsettin were maistly the preserve o men, and afore onie mensefu
1 matches

Havery, Hannah The Gaithering, (Literature Alliance Scotland 2022) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
preserve them wi ye
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
hey'll gan to ANY lengths tae preserve the union. (2022) twitter link

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
lievt was his weird. An than, preserve's, it did happen; an insteed on page 76

1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ties can access resources tae preserve, heft an' forder thair on page 37
u' tim' an' pairt tim' waark, preserve oor on page 66

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