A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

shouldn’t Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.6 0.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences21 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of shouldn’t in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
likes of him and Attenborough shouldn’t grow auld ????(2020) search twitter

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
o Does that mean Miller et al shouldn’t count appearances against Sio (2020) twitter link