A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

abilities Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 0 0 5.8 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences63 0 0 1 1 1
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of abilities in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
r hud the wrang idea aboot ma abilities because she'd met the lang li on page 7

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
abilities an braidens the student’s o
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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
otreach wi fowk o ilka age an abilities. The Dictionars o the Scots L
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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
kennin dat dey hed different abilities he pairtit it aa oot as he to on page 105

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Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
As a history buff, within ma abilities and experiences esp huvin liv (2021) twitter link

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
like they had no footballing abilities or skills whatsoever, resembl on page 32

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