A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

absent Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 5 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1310 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 2

Occurrences of absent 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.

Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ay tae mysel: 'A bodie can be absent-mindit, an it taks nae mair n on page 93

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Broun, but nae reason tae be absent frae the kirk; for there is d on page 40
e tae God that the curate wis absent this nicht. on page 41

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
No that me bein absent fae the scene coonted fur any on page 61

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
an toasts - ti absent freends! on page 23

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
od that morn tae cover for an absent colleague. He had spent his l on page 37

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
wes absent frae thair skonces. Mirren an
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Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
wan e' rem wee mini Marathons absent mindedly an' a meenit later A
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@g_hibby tweeted
tae let ye know I'm gonna be absent fae here for a few days.. Thi (2023) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
od viewpoints - on behalf of absent fans - i will not b moved on (2020) twitter link

Doric

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
ue tae sae mony faithers bein absent.
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@fittiecrooners tweeted
nae knocking her aff as been absent o' late(2016) search twitter
Bin absent fae tweet thing fer a wee bit(2019) search twitter

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