A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cad Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.5 4.1 33.2 39.7 0 41.3 8.9
Number of occurrences408 22 4 0 4 2
Number of authors17 4 7 2 2 2

Occurrences of cad in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
vin; Oan the watter vieve, ah cad rax tae claucht the muin. on page 30

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
cad Cervisiam Pectae which in muc on page 18
Men cad Lockhart, Scott, on page 56
Thaur wis a bagpiper cad on page 58

3 matches

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
We parked outside a wee shop cad, “Night and Day”, across
1 matches

McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
the bogle cad Aiken Drum.
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e Mariza sings ae bonnie Fado cad Chuva forbye Ana Maria (young(2020) search twitter
Wednesday at Holyrood. It is cad FMQ(2020) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Thi sea's pullootit we stuff cad eil on page 35
doo a sum keyn, a theink thi cad eit a "Convintion," an ither on page 60

2 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
lived a young loon cad Freddie Futrat. on page 163

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
e tae suit. Bappy, the ithers cad him: glaikit fyles, bit hairm
here wis aince a young lassie cad Pranitha."
wye tae Enlightenment. Ithers cad it Samanalakande – Butterfl
ar anely gien oot tae fit war cad "economic migrants" o the pui
tia the noo luikin at fit wis cad the DPBC model – Duguid's P
6 matches

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
w ma didie spikin to a mannie cad Ian Gordon. I wis usy wonderi
1 matches

McArthur, Kaydi Rich n Peer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
, ere wis an affa fine loonie cad James MacPherson. He bade in
It wis cad 'It is caul' and went a wee b
2 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
africa. Ats actually fit its cad. Haha. Sven vath at timewarp (2013) search twitter
cunts that had it. Wiz it nae cad muckers?(2013) search twitter
c eh? Listen tae a tune o his cad the secret. #banger(2013) search twitter
emcgettrick @giggsy26 shud be cad 12(2013) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t like, Aye is that yon paper cad Trend. Any chunce ye can dee (2016) search twitter
get beat the morn and bookie cad me athing(2016) search twitter
Far far awa in a place cad Fittie on one icy bla'ing a h(2018) search twitter
is COD-fish or fit ever it’s cad wid deen een ?????? https://t(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
s cheust a rogue - a bit o a cad, a dirty dog on page 77

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
n wirds, an whit leid policie cad gar that tae com? An aathoris
ard grammars wir no enforced? Cad that be pert o undoan cless a
d o govrenment? – or gin we cad understand it, right enof, bi
3 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
k Waitter) is ae herds biggin cad Howpasley Combe, whilk is mai
ae oor kye, an ilka nicht hei cad it oor hoose tae colleck
licht o the praisent day, say cad equal-aqual opportunities atw
3 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
right of. #technologyisshit #CAD(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
y. Perpaityal Succour she wuz cad ahint hir bak. Thon hizzy had on page 49

1 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@govindajeggy A bra cad, a bra! (2021) twitter link

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