A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

vowels Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.5 3.2 0 29.8 58.1 0 4.4
Number of occurrences206 0 3 10 0 1
Number of authors9 5 1 2 1

Occurrences of vowels in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an meh vowels on page 16

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
vowels strecht tae the point, on page 5

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
n efter a "t", "r" an certain vowels;
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
the combination of long, flat vowels and guttural fricatives…wer
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
hit are kent as braid or back vowels (sic as in loch) as weel as t
er sae-cawed slender or front vowels (sic as in dreich).
2 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
you represent aal that funny vowels in Orkney language? For insta on page 8

3 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
dy rollin harp o vowels. Whit loss. on page 19

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
spokken languages haes baith vowels an consonants. on page 22
2.1.1 Vowels on page 23
low an d'ir seemlar tae maist vowels. Dis kinds o obstructions can on page 25
Shaetlan haes lang an short vowels baith. Hoosumivver, de'r no w on page 28

9 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ft German dots owre a wheen o vowels! (2015) twitter link