A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

commence Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of commence in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
en this wid be a gid time tae commence’’ and wae that ah gee him
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
me - the fixtures should all commence as planned (2020) twitter link
eople - aye n let the mayhem commence - jist ma view likes lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
uiseNicol1 Let the good times commence. Right really must go tae bed(2011) search twitter