A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

auxiliary Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.9 1 1.5 0 75.6 0 0
Number of occurrences162 1 0 13 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of auxiliary in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
o doubles as the cleaner, the auxiliary nurse, an the superviser ae t on page 33

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
aboot how some folk contract auxiliary verbs in certain circumstance (2021) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
taen a fit at the skweel, an auxiliary quine frae Nigeria, Mrs Ngobo
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
auxiliary will, sall or da phrase gyaan on page 74
CONTRACTED AUXILIARY VERB on page 76
auxiliary verbs or function verbs (i.e. on page 88
wyes o negatin sentences. Wi auxiliary verbs da verbal suffix - na on page 89
ons in Shaetlan is tae pit da auxiliary at da begineen o on page 90
Also on pages 91, 92
10 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
ang wi da contracted negative auxiliary:
meyd wi da pronoun alang wi a auxiliary inflected wi da negative suff
tE, Shætlan inflects da "be" auxiliary tag fir da 1st person singula

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