A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

amateur Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words32.5 51.4 4.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences104100 3 0 0 1 0
Number of authors10 6 3 1

Occurrences of amateur in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
His wirk wis aye presentit bi amateur companies - aften o great sk on page 37

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
me whit a dab hand he wis at amateur jynerin an hou he invied me t on page 98

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
, it's gittin uizual tae hear amateur reciters an actors ca'in a tr
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
odel o the London Unity. Five amateur groups got thegither: the Gla
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ur in the van, gien it aw the amateur dramatics - inaudibly, right
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
right oot the windae for the amateur game after there decision - (2020) twitter link
am chappin at the bit for the amateur game gettin started again! (2021) twitter link
d swally oan the touchline at amateur fitbaw - a try tae avoid tha (2021) twitter link
@OfficialSLFL @KeltyHeartsFC amateur football teams can play 3 gam (2021) twitter link
on leitch and the fm give the amateur football community an explana (2020) twitter link
and 87 other occurrences.

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
tae Nairn tae see the British Amateur
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Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
e like as tae say,”S’this amateur hour?” Still anaw we hop up
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@72redz1903 tweeted
mair broadly, the decline in amateur fitba, welfare fitba - there (2022) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
whae, accordin tae yin amateur genealogist, Morvin Wricht, w
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