A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

alternatives Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences84 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of alternatives 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

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
an ae the gid guys. Cause the alternatives no worth hinkin aboot. How wi on page 21

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
owk cin, an will, respond tae alternatives tae the neo-con austerity pol on page 9

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the same tulyiein aboot thir alternatives – maybe acause Scots writer
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
alternatives tae
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an there's plenty o safer alternatives on page 17

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
he back - fact is we’ve nae alternatives at the moment. Re Considine, (2022) twitter link
Aye, that is a danger but the alternatives? Jeesus it’s a horrendous po (2020) twitter link

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