A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

belong Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 3 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences96 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of belong in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
the piana playin. She didnae belong. It was the place she'd arriv on page 1

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ack tae yir auld maw where yi belong. Widyi mean. Away back tae yi on page 66

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ou make them sound as if they belong to a pre-lapsarian world, bef
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
, follaein the rules where ah belong.

@Chazzbat tweeted
ade tae feel like they dinnae belong. Ah cannae wrap ma heid aroon(2020) search twitter

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
irst thoucht wis at iss micht belong till wan o on page 10

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
f then heeded back tae far we belong, the Fittie Bar! Jessie disna(2016) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Hear hear @kristinwh0 Aa belong tae Glesga. https://t.co/HOve(2020) search twitter