A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bsl Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.2 11.4 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2423 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of bsl in Corpus

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Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
Gaelic or Scots. There wis a BSL option fur the langer cry fur on page 2

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
shed aboot British Sign Leid (BSL).
(intakkin BSL). It mibbe wid be helpfu tae
community leids an BSL an their contribution tae the
British Sign Leid (BSL)
better awnin o BSL forby.
17 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Maun we mak new wirds fir a chyngin warld?, (The National 2020) Central, newspaper
speak o the native yaisers o BSL, but A cam up agin a problem
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
sh an even a bittie French an BSL). She’s ainlie raicently st
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
’ Een ‘herÂ’ wuid be tricky, BSL grammar yaises placement. In (2018) search twitter
Absolutely. I am happy with 'BSL yaiser' fir certain groups. M(2019) search twitter
ative, mind. Jist, haein seen BSL interps, they yaise speech wh(2018) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
which SNP dae by recognising BSL as language. Ye see There is (2020) search twitter