A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

borrowing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2.5 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences55 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of borrowing in Corpus

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Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
words or spellings sometimes borrowing wholesale from the dictionary
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
This is in contrast to direct borrowing from other languages such as
Scots anticipated English in borrowing them, including such familiar
Borrowing from Latin was in Older Scots
3 matches

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full gov autonomy fiscal and borrowing powers. I see a paradigm (and(2020) search twitter

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