A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pretends 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 pretends in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
gs). Her life is a total lee. Pretends that she’s nicey, nicey tae
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Whit sort o prossie pretends tae be intae somewan, then sl(2020) search twitter

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
. She cares about fowk, Boris pretends to care. She sets it out clea (2020) twitter link