A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

adopt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 4 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences108 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of adopt 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

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
let's sing, speak, adopt and gie toasts tae oor brithe on page 77

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
in anger. "When I agreed tae adopt yese," he said, "I became yer on page 46
"Mebbe Judge Strauss could adopt us," Klaus said. "She said we on page 59
hit's gaun on, she'd want tae adopt us," Klaus said howpfully, bu on page 60

3 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
adopt the following meesures: on page 25

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
uin whan they speirt MSPs tae adopt a Scots word tae uise an she
1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
@echaimbeul I’ll adopt ye, hen! (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
drap a the daiälekt wirds an adopt Standard English vool firmaes
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
aFSemple @brian_bilston Never adopt anything from East Ayrshire. (2020) search twitter