A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scotticism Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 4.6 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences99 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of scotticism in Corpus

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
A Scotticism is a word, saw or eediom that on page 38
t is conseedert tae be a slee Scotticism. on page 39

4 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Swither is a covert Scotticism descendit frae Aald English b
el wi an example o the covert Scotticism o the type: the dog wants wal
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
able example o this ‘covert Scotticism’ phenomenon, alang wi vocab
evit SSE; i.e. it is a covert Scotticism. (In Scots, by contrast, the
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
This is a sae-cawed ‘covert Scotticism’, in that maist o its yaise
1 matches

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