Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'witnessed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

witnessed	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.8	25	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	17.9	7	4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.8	3	3
GLA - Glasgow	27.1	5	1
AYR - Ayrshire	52.4	4	1
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of witnessed in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
y ta apologise ta anybody wha witnessed me tryin ta reverse yun thing (2020) twitter link
Just witnessed a person runnin up da face o (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ny's parks. A kirn o fowk hid witnessed the accident, an war steerin
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General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
oon frae the tap o Morven, an witnessed it. I learned yon nicht that on page 51

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@72redz1903 tweeted
touched by the toxic culture witnessed in George Square this week. (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n tae process what ah've jist witnessed, ah notice Aldo hus crashed o on page 42
t sae spooked by what she hud witnessed, She went tae yin ae they pla on page 68

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ouple an the hale country had witnessed the weddin live on TV. Jist a on page 88

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Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
soleecitor cam, he an a nurse witnessed
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
scenes are nothin tae what a witnessed in the real days o fitbaw - (2021) twitter link
respect to the club 100% - witnessed many great battles with this (2020) twitter link
showers is a big issue m8 - witnessed lads on sat soaked to the ski (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
held it. Some witnessed that it blinkit an wept. on page 112

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McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
You’ve witnessed mony a kayak stroke,
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ions wis legendary tae aw who witnessed thum. Ah’m starin doon cert
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a Granda an whit ah’ve just witnessed , an whit they’d think ay me
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Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah sais tae him, whit ah’d witnessed huvin the required effect oan
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah keep whit ah’ve witnessed tae masel. McDade will only s
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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ard fur the flaky we’d just witnessed , Joe’s weak explanation ind
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ineteen twinty three. Ah’ve witnessed countless acts ay violence bo
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n near-at-haun in the toun - witnessed this crueltt. crousely challe on page 26
red. In his trevels, John had witnessed pui, sowls' biggins brunt tae on page 34
a Conventicle, he'd aft-times witnessed wee huddles of folk makin the on page 51
his forebodin. For whit they witnessed that bitter efternuin wis the on page 81

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
at deal of attention, and was witnessed with a great deal of exciteme
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