A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spaekers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.5 6.7 0 39.7 133.7 0 0
Number of occurrences4013 0 4 23 0 0
Number of authors6 1 3 2

Occurrences of spaekers in Corpus

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Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
wa wad be fine wi maist Scots spaekers, A dinna think we should expe
it aa the haurder for native spaekers tae read an teach.
"couthie" that A think Scots spaekers prefers tae stick wi, an it s
o them, an different dialeck spaekers can still read them wi their
Tak tent that for native spaekers readin Scots, nane o this is
8 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
guid start, but no aa native spaekers jalouses what kittle differs
texts). A lot o native Scots spaekers that disna see this differ ha
ae pit his ideas ower tae its spaekers as guid as he can.
3 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
's still says bi modren Scots spaekers.
Some modren Scots spaekers disna hae ti read a orra chei
2 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
's bobban on hids tedder. The spaekers bide silent. The wrack laeves on page 115

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
t is written by real Orcadian spaekers - and the content is unlike on page 1

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
soft-spaekers, on page 11

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ovrenment strategy event haed spaekers wi Niddrie or Sighthill accen
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
gible wi English. Aa Shaetlan spaekers is bilingual wi English. Hits on page 7
a o Europe is bøn settled bi spaekers o aa kind o Indo-European lan on page 13
aboot 600 AD, an at dat time spaekers o Gaelic startit flittin fae on page 14
Shetland wis first settled bi spaekers o Wast Norse aboot 790. We du on page 15
linguists, fieldwirkers an L1 spaekers o Shaetlan. Fir mair in-depth on page 21
Also on pages 22, 36, 46, 69, 80
22 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ian - or ony idder wye whaar spaekers is kyuckerin up dir midder to
1 matches

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