A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts
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Use in varieties of Scots takin'
Corpus occurrences
Central
Doric / Northern
Orkney
Shetland
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Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words 3.1
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Number of occurrences 10 6
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Number of authors 8
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Occurrences of takin' in Corpus
In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to
the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.
Central
Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots , (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws , (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
McPartlin, John Lallans 67 - Efter the Bonspiel , (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks , (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry matches
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Doric
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Ulster
Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems , (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
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