A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

they’ve Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences52 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of they’ve in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ying tae recoup all the money they’ve lost this year. You’ll stick(2020) search twitter

@MizLiot tweeted
it’s like tae be trans, but they’ve a richt tae exist. (2021) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
es got Glass the sack and now they’ve downed tools on Goodwin - ho (2022) twitter link
interesting aboot Cove is how they’ve managed tae entice corporate (2022) twitter link
ShedRed1 @CormackDavie Fit if they’ve been sanctioned for a while, (2021) twitter link