A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

borrowed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences65 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of borrowed in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
wan). Humf that, huge awkward borrowed bouzouki in case, resonator g on page 3

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
I the lug o a borrowed tent at the brae o the river on page 24

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
ey any pairt of the 40000 lib borrowed be the magistratis and counsa
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ny words of Latin origin were borrowed into the two languages at wid
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ae trust ane within us. It is borrowed fae WW2’s Jewish community..(2020) search twitter