A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

we’re Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 6.2 25.6 9.9 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences3212 17 1 0 1 1
Number of authors13 8 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of we’re in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@karenisathome @Douglas4Moray We’re all in our bunkers now. If yi(2020) search twitter
IrnBru. Then telling us that we’re too fucking stupid tae run ou(2020) search twitter
@bhp1905 I carry one, but we’re talking aw day here.(2020) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
n @edbookfest It’s sold out! We’re hoping to go on the 15th and (2019) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
hanged.Along wae Oor 12th Man We’re gonna wi(2019) search twitter
Aye, A know. ??. This is whit We’re reduced tae??. ??. ????????(2018) search twitter
@nicktroyFTOF Cause We’re awe invred..??. ????????(2019) search twitter

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
ld8 @ScotlandshireGB Exactly. We’re *all* Jock Tamson’s bairns.(2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
bitin, an mind yersels o whit we’re fechtin for, an why that taks(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
We’re celebratin #WorldBookDay by g (2019) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
broyston asda to do this till we’re allowed back into McGrory? ht (2021) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
_dent Fell intae Nummer 10 an we’re greeting at this phony (2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ers! Hiv a great celebration, we’re waving oor flag fur ye! https(2018) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
much mair passes forward and we’re scoring mair. Playing oot fae (2022) twitter link
l say is it’s a Mcinnes side we’re playing, doubt they will come (2022) twitter link
il we sell one of oor assets, we’re nae making significant signin (2022) twitter link
s gan tae be a lang summer if we’re picking the bones oar signing (2021) twitter link
@rennie_mjr We’re a side with nae confidence, n (2021) twitter link
and 11 other occurrences.

Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
Orkney, we’re coman hame! https://t.co/alDm (2021) twitter link

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
gh my letterbox this evening (we’re 116 miles frae #Hawick!) ?? h(2019) search twitter

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@billykayscot If we’re locked doon ony langer ayont (2020) search twitter