A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speiker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 7.4 0 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences1514 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of speiker in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Ye're a gey puir speiker," said the King. on page 44

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The Hinmaist Speiker on page 175

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
l), ir described. The current speiker tells us o a letter he haes g
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
l in the middle, whaur an SSE speiker will pronoonce it wi a rhotic
r conscious choice by the SSE speiker. This group is like as no tae
Tak tent that, whan a speiker o SSE, but no Scots, yaises s
ckle the ae wey as an English speiker micht yaise the French phrase
fu fur tae descrieve whit the speiker is daein. This is acause sicl
5 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ad is porridge”), the Scots speiker willnae miss a beat in owerse
sh equivalent, fur the Gaelic speiker, owersettin it tae cugallach
tforrit fur a Scots or Gaelic speiker tae flit atween The Broch and
is less straichtforrit fur a speiker o English whae hasnae maister
nae doot that, fur the Scots speiker learnin the Gaelic, or the Ga
6 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
an Gaelic. A 'learned' Gaelic speiker, he hus bin crowned Bard at t on page 127

1 matches

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