A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

adams Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2 4.5 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences94 3 0 0 1 1
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of adams in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
rther at Upper Wellwood. Wull Adams, the Campbells' labourer, wis on page 58

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Ah who pu'd apples, frae true Adams tree on page 54

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
aim, includin the likes o Kay Adams, didnae ken his richt name an
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
cGregor’s words efter Joyce Adams’ funeral. Ah’d heard sheâ
1 matches

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
tes to spout drivel then Kaye Adams(2020) search twitter
BCRadioScot @BBCScotland Kaye Adams wis affa excited wee a Spanis(2020) search twitter
cision to switch aff yon Kaye Adams on the wireless greet whine m(2020) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Some wud ca' ye Adams ale on page 19

1 matches

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
tell thon Erdogan fellah that Adams has already stepped back http(2018) search twitter