| colloquial | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occurences normalised per million words | 5.1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.8 | |
| Number of occurrences | 17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Number of authors | 7 | 6 | 1 |
Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
a pouerfou linguistic hybrid: colloquial Scots idioms plus the heich r on page 60
, When we were first acquent (Colloquial Scots fae Auld French) on page 61
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Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
blad ad hoc frae leeterary or colloquial styles whaniver the needcessi
a’) siccan maks pits ower a colloquial register – ane at’s obvio
slang. But hale langages haes colloquial an slang registers as weel as
lly” micht be juist as guid colloquial Scots as ‘I don’t wanna w
e’s farm no more’ is guid colloquial American, but nane o thaim is
6 matches
Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
like. Auld farrant an recent colloquial Scots baith haes thair place,
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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
the match wi the skirl o the colloquial language in the original was
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Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ture ayont the couthie an the colloquial. Aifter aw, naebodie can norm
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
yin: this ane’s a bit mair colloquial, but aye neutral eneuch. A pr
wan: maist colloquial o aw, and wi a strang central
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
il) can mean ‘penis’ in a colloquial context; which is pleyed on,
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