A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

xx Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words24.9 16 59.2 9.9 52.3 0 0
Number of occurrences7730 37 1 9 0 0
Number of authors18 10 2 1 5

Occurrences of xx in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
Chaipter XX on page 64
Chaipter XX VII on page 91

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
pay to the king the soume of xx pounds.
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
, and continewit the space of XX daies; and thairfoir the King
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
. Huv ye gat the coronavirus? xx
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
are...HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUL YIN! xx(2017) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
me Matt time? Hae a guid eve! xx(2014) search twitter
ep speakin Scottish! Hee hee! xx(2014) search twitter
iling Course tae dae! Advice! xx(2014) search twitter
e snaw the morrow tae! Sheesh!XX(2016) search twitter
odes pleeeeease! Hugggsssss!? xx(2016) search twitter

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
Beautiful. Aw the best tae ye xx(2020) search twitter
re @ashtenRD Have a guid time xx(2019) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
o thum. Block an ignore, hen xx(2020) search twitter
s. You dae whit maks ye happy xx(2020) search twitter
hertfelt condolences, ma luv xx(2020) search twitter
kind tae him in his last days xx(2020) search twitter
ain. Hope ye feel better suin xx(2020) search twitter
and 9 other occurrences.

@raiphsays tweeted
@JeaneF1MSP Sad tae hear it xx(2020) search twitter
g Am sendin aw luv tae ye ????xx(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n - youd make a luvely santa xx (2020) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ope yer ha'ing a guid Sunday. xx(2014) search twitter
nt I'll change that tomorrow. xx(2014) search twitter
rs thanks hiv a guid weekend. xx(2014) search twitter
ks again for pointing it out. xx(2014) search twitter
avidMerson mony thanks David! xx(2014) search twitter
and 23 other occurrences.

@Franwella tweeted
nks, we'll hae a fab time ;-) xx(2013) search twitter
e mine. You can bide th night xx(2012) search twitter
meant tae say Happy Birthday xx(2012) search twitter
ghtly longer than expected!!! xx(2011) search twitter
come sleep at mine ma luverly xx(2011) search twitter
and 4 other occurrences.

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
to tell you xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xx seeing as it will soon be at on page 37

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
t "With lots of love from Mam xx' dis time, fur Robert wis bee on page 25

1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
affected da prices too much! xx (2014) twitter link
m pretty sure am doin dat! ?? xx (2017) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
forward tae readin dis Sally xx(2020) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
trength tae dee, kishie wife! Xx(2019) search twitter
can't wait to meet the cats! xx(2018) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
. Send dem oot and let dem go xx (2019) twitter link
you’ll be dancin ageen soon xx https://t.co/YeBBAmnNAp (2018) twitter link
@SamMGreer Im blyde dus no xx (2020) twitter link

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