A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

switchin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 7.2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1514 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors14 13 1

Occurrences of switchin in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
is hoddin a wee MP3 speaker n switchin between 'Dancing in the Dark' on page 25

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Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
urkin'? If yer habit is niwer switchin' auf frae wurk, checkin' yer on page

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
ye work, Cloot?' he speired, switchin on the camera. on page 11

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
uckle ladle. She thocht aboot switchin ower tae her left haund, but on page 51

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
pian, we wad expeck mair code-switchin - whiles spickin Scots, whil on page 9

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Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
memorie I hae is o ma faither switchin aff the TV because he felt th
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
atois, although the same code-switchin an code-mixin Marley used is
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
a towel as she couldnae risk switchin oan the hairdryer at 4.32am.
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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
code-switchin
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Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
a fowk revival? Gin fowk are switchin aff their tellies they could
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
s? The difference atween code-switchin and bein twa-leidit?
iolinguistic norrie o “code switchin” is yaisefu fur tae conside
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@LairnScots tweeted
we ken Scots is a leid, code-switchin, attitudes towards Scots, an (2019) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
6Derek did u no ken dougie is switchin tae scottish labour - hees s (2021) twitter link

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
Christie was an afa loon fur switchin aff tae moan at the ref. Play(2020) search twitter