A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ancestry Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of ancestry in Corpus

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Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
wi ancestry sae rare,
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
neaology (tracin yer auncient ancestry), wi a guid wheen wabsites no
ty tae trace their ‘true’ ancestry back hunners o years athort t
ortriu through his mither’s ancestry (although this wisnae common
3 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e kent onything aboot his ain ancestry?
1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
rlan an' gien the emphasis o' ancestry dhriven tourism bae Tourism A on page 65

1 matches

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