A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

backend Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 0 1.5 49.7 0 0 0
Number of occurrences60 1 5 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of backend in Corpus

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Doric

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Fuirsday, lek the day, in the backend. on page 125

1 matches

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Backend Boggle on page 136

1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
le wis the Yorkshire words ‘backend’ (autumn) and ‘backendish
). Wir fokk eused the word ‘backend’ bit no meanan ‘hairst’
irst. ‘Hid wis gey near the backend afore a’ the crop wis in’
d hiv the Harvest Home at the backend. Whit deu ither Reevlers thin

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