Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'commit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

commit	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.3	17	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.2	4	2
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee	21.2	2	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of commit 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
at he wis been ower faered ta commit tae a pairtner. His crops wis on page 2

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ir forebeers were telt "Dinna commit murther, ony man att commita on page 12
d, "Fadder, intill yer hans A commit ma speerit," an sayin att, he on page 120

3 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the monitors. Threatenin tae commit aw soarts ae atrocities oan t on page 27
e, ah kin only imagine she'll commit food genocide. It husnae esca on page 51
okin fur the quickest wey tae commit social suicide then we kin ta on page 190

3 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ae the blazin fiddlers - eel commit hari kari lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
ything aboot folk wanting tae commit mass genocide. But aye, go af (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Pairty, afore it decided tae commit hara-kiri in Scotland, that b on page 67

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
t awa an draw up an order tae commit the lads tae the jile. At thi on page 26

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
be the full fuckin ragin tae commit tae actual profanity.
1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
beit under a heidin at daesna commit it tae ony action), the Scott on page 56

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Matthew Fitt: a word aboot 'bad' language, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
is confidence. Confidence tae commit yir brilliant ideas tae paper
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Commit pen tae paper
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Order no.3 - commit suicide (though thon needs a on page 77

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
annlins, then government maun commit tae thrie mair principles: on page 17

1 matches