A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pronounce Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 8 4.8 19.9 17.4 0 8.8
Number of occurrences2515 3 2 3 0 2
Number of authors20 11 3 2 2 2

Occurrences of pronounce in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The cockerel did pronounce. on page 17

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ame's Madame Bonnet except yi pronounce it Bonnie an that's somethin on page 16
ah couldnae remember how tae pronounce any it. on page 19

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
fessor Aitken's essay "How to Pronounce Older Scots", whaur the'r a e
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
But sum word I pronounce as nichtbour dois;
1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
e’s Madame Bonnet except yi pronounce it Bonny an that’s somethin
ah couldnae remember how tae pronounce any of it.
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
pronounce the tones yer utterances beco
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ken that ye’r no meant tae pronounce the letter R efter a vowel, a
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
tae the Scots leid in print) pronounce it richt.
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
. Took ages tae learn how tae pronounce that name, and I never forgot
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
still bitter cause we cannae pronounce Carl and kept calling him Car(2020) search twitter

@jack_capener tweeted
thing about hearing @ionafyfe pronounce words with a glottal stop (eg(2018) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
s can help folk lairn how tae pronounce the wirds in the @ScotsDictio (2020) twitter link
) tae help folk lairn how tae pronounce the wirds in their new dictio (2020) twitter link

Doric

@d_anderson878 tweeted
As lang as ye pronounce it b-u-tt-r-ie. ?? https://t.(2020) search twitter

@DoricPhrases tweeted
r...nope ah dinna ken foo tae pronounce aat! https://t.co/c60cdGm3zT(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ordon, Gino & Fred canna even pronounce Brechin properly! Brek-in!!! (2018) search twitter

Orkney

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
s too - or teu, as some fokk pronounce it. If wae adopted the Scandi on page 8

1 matches

Ljosland, Ragnhild New, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Cus no-one here can pronounce me auld one
1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2017) Shetland
' different areas ö Shetlan' pronounce wirds different, so it follow

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
nah shö joost meant hoo tae pronounce "happy", shö kens hoo ta say(2019) search twitter
rt Yeah dirs a lock o ways to pronounce him across de isles — bon, b(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
's an airm, yer honour!" (Hae pronounce''t it "arrum.") on page 37

1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
theface @LADFLEG If you don't pronounce it as "Magggerafelt" You're n(2017) search twitter

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