A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

caam Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 0.5 11.9 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences121 8 3 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of caam in Corpus

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Central

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
yin. “Thoo just haes tae be caam an ignore thaim.”
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
n throo big moshean. Bit en a caam day because o her deep drauch on page 18
t wis a bonnie mornen, Flatta caam, Bit we a fair swall. Oneywui on page 19
Thi sea is coorse, Thi sea is caam on page 35
'Fit's a dee?"" An aifter hee caam/'t doon a beit, he telt ma ei on page 37
is bad rottet eis aw aat. Jib caam't doon an geid baak doon abil on page 55
Also on pages 56, 59, 61
8 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ck that, feel this, kick yin, caam doon. Nivver kens sheu hoo de on page 134
heu canno hear. Sheu's ferfil caam. Anunder ivry laef anither. A on page 160

2 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Afore long his peedie red van caam doon the road. I watched as g on page 129

1 matches

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