Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

analogy	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	4	0	0	5.8	0	0
Number of occurrences	9	8	0	0	1	0	0
Number of authors	5	4			1

Occurrences of analogy in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ft. But tae gang back tae the analogy o a bad mairriage, gin ae pai on page 24

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
reist' (for ridbreist, on the analogy o guid) - ironically, the Re on page 56

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
rap o uizin the diaphoneme bi analogy wi the English "oo" (the trap
s soondin fae the English, bi analogy wi "Whittinghame, Tyninghame,
2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
It wadna dae for tae push the analogy ower faur, bit the seimilarit
rst in Inglis. Ah fin a uisfu analogy for this i the concep o ‘pr
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
pellin, sae makkin guesses by analogy wi ither soons
he hypothesis o ‘guesses by analogy’ that produces dairk. On th
2 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
wir 'were'. Trowe analogy an hypercorrection da existen on page 87

1 matches