A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

returnt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.7 1.5 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences1613 1 0 0 0 2
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of returnt in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An peace returnt tae aa the land, on page 34

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
yet returnt wi her hairt on page 60

1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
tion excercise an the thochts returnt wull feed intae the progress
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
He returnt tae his electronic screen an
s at his breist. Tad an Hsien returnt the boo an the lama ushert th
n the shoother, an the wumman returnt silently tae her place at the
a wee, till they got bored an returnt tae thair ain crack, growin a
boot ither things, than Hsien returnt tae the ilk tune.
8 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
vote mair nor Labour, but wis returnt in 2011 wi the maist seats (6
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
ae the Guid Folk goat respect returnt, byt theym as whit wurnae did
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - An Eggs-traordinar Egg, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
back roon and the wild swaans returnt hame, he heard their saft hoo on page 25

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
They aal returnt frae him tae yae, on page 120
"Yit it gaes on 'they aal returnt frae him tae yae'," said Alic on page 122

2 matches

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