A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

col Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2 0 0 11.6 20.7 0
Number of occurrences84 0 0 2 2 0
Number of authors5 2 1 2

Occurrences of col in Corpus

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Central

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
p tae the hollaed-oot glacial col, only aboot twal acres in ext
y walkit up tae the lip o the col an sut leukin doon at a wheen
scrauchlet ower the lip o the col an
3 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
@Hibbycol Now that's nice Col... ?? And have a belter yerse (2022) twitter link

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
shö slippit him laek a haet col, juist in time ta stop hersel on page 20
slippit da bottle laek a haet col, sayin tae hersel, "Yon's mai on page 34

2 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
e, an hei fermed baith ferms. Col. Fasson wis ae POW wi the Jap
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ColinBurnett16 Cheers Col, yon means a lot. (2020) twitter link

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