A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

accounts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 9.8 6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2419 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors15 10 4 1

Occurrences of accounts in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
my music lessons." "Ah! That accounts for it aa," said the Hatter. on page 44

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ae profits end up in the bank accounts o named individuals - but su on page 116

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ist feenisht daein the week's accounts. His back's no that guid thes on page 72

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
That’s no aa he upset bi aa accounts,” added Wullie ti the furth
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Accounts, payroll, an siclike wark,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
e rest, he deposited in three accounts ah’ve goat wae different ba
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
had aye tae keep an ee on the accounts. He raise an luikt oot the wi
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
later oan tae this. Think yir accounts been hacked ookin at yir 3 pr(2015) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
sEuroPinion In their ain bank accounts(2020) search twitter

@changed_days tweeted
ich a did an noo a have the 2 accounts linked? ?? But a cany see ma (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ae try n cover his tracks (10 accounts) - thats 2 o us hoo hae been (2020) twitter link
wer thats a big fan of the 10 accounts man nudge nudge wink wink lol (2020) twitter link
- found another one - its 8 accounts now - ffs lol - aye its rad (2020) twitter link
we the data breaches on folks accounts when they were there he he (2020) twitter link
24438710 @NE98FT thats your 3 accounts blocked - cheerio lol (2020) twitter link
and 4 other occurrences.

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
s A'm hearin? Mak oot a set o accounts, cause A'm gie'in ye e seck'. on page 107

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
n on this arrangement but fae accounts it is interestin tae note tha
1 matches

Murray, Campbell Dinna Quat, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Fan pooches are teem, an’ accounts maun be peyed;
1 matches

@McGoo1888 tweeted
ve got tae keep sharp for hun accounts...hence the reaction amigo... (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
only came out at night. Some accounts have described them as posses(2019) search twitter