A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

arrest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.1 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences96 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors9 6 2 1

Occurrences of arrest in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
a mum passed awey wae cardiac arrest. Least, that's what the doact on page 91

1 matches

Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
cairds- nae trials- an house arrest
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
dy shal be gart thole wulsome arrest, detention nor exile.
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
rs as they wur kent. Thur wis arrest, fines, imprisonment, torture

@DABArbuckle tweeted
lis didnae tak the chance tae arrest her for corruption, theft and(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
t imagine the polis tryin tae arrest everyone - ad pay tae c that (2020) twitter link

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
yirsel. An pit es chiel unner arrest, for he haes tint his wuts aa on page 82

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
much later story concerns an arrest made by McChubb the Polis on on page 118

1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
nstantly fae a muckle cardiac arrest, his face is smashed to the p(2020) search twitter