A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chiefly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences63 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of chiefly in Corpus

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Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ary, which describes it as ‘chiefly Scots’ comes fae the Townel
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
nless linguistic distinction) chiefly comprised o wurds that can be
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
ds o Lethington. It is linkit chiefly wi Sir Richard Maitland (1496
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Doric

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
rs tae amuse or wunner aboot, chiefly the dour yet whiles wyce Dr. on page 124

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
rs tae amuse or wunner aboot, chiefly the dour yet whiles wyce Dr.
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Southern

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gest bookshop @Waterstones - chiefly when a muckle bit’s gien owe(2019) search twitter