A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pronunciation Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 7.4 3.2 0 69.7 21.9 4.4
Number of occurrences3114 2 0 12 2 1
Number of authors17 11 2 2 2 1

Occurrences of pronunciation in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
shing merks, owe much tae the pronunciation ae the city's Irish an Hielan on page vi

3 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
strangulated tones o Received Pronunciation on the airwaves wis bein repl on page 48

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
those writers indicated many pronunciation changes, probably owing to na on page 15
nly have a slightly different pronunciation in Scots than in Scottish Sta on page 18

2 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
hou aften the original Scots pronunciation is hained in faimily names th on page 10

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
aith makkin a bourach o Scots pronunciation whan it's written wi narrae a
1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
h he is no responsible for ma pronunciation.
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
onds in Scots; an the ‘e’ pronunciation o the vowel in words like dea
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
upper class English Received Pronunciation, it’s mair likely noo that
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
eatit, correctin Beatrice’s pronunciation. Than she gied her a wird for
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
illie (no Wullie) Fernie. The pronunciation was the same. Sae why, in the
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ionars. We ?? the support fir pronunciation! Download an lug in. #Scots # (2021) twitter link

Doric

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
- ‘Hard as Hinnersins’ (NE pronunciation of ‘Hendersons’) referring (2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
beruary 1694.' Portrays local pronunciation o Boyndie. https://t.co/QrZuq (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
actually far mair differ idda pronunciation, grammar an vocabulary atween on page 20
ond cheinges idda middle o da pronunciation. Vowels can be "strong" (stre on page 23
fix is unstressed, at maks da pronunciation no be da sam as e.g. ken 'kno on page 42
Finnin a differ in da pronunciation o fir/fur is bøn nottit idda on page 80

6 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
rds, da differs is onnly i da pronunciation. Yit I doot at maest fock wid
set of grammatical rules and pronunciation. It is not and never has been
hae ony consistent grammar an pronunciation, dan ony attempt ta write dis
tempt ta write dis grammar an pronunciation doon - laek in Grammar and U
ta can ta read it wi dir ain pronunciation.
6 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
hat whyles preclude the richt pronunciation o place names.
1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
pronunciation o oor numerals an that o the
1 matches

Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
rofound as hearing the proper pronunciation of "sheugh" #wordoftheday(2017) search twitter