A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pretending Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences52 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of pretending in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
brither) he continually lees, pretending he isnae gay. Naebody wha lov
1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
an the telly, but is actually pretending he is tae avoid getting his e (2021) twitter link

Doric

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
upper on a picnic bench while pretending not to notice that it’s star(2020) search twitter

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
ought the imposter was yersel pretending tae be an indy supporter and (2021) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
our friends and neighbours by pretending to a more refined use of lang
1 matches

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