A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contemporary Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 12.3 4.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2924 3 1 0 1 0
Number of authors18 13 3 1 1

Occurrences of contemporary in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
'The reclamation of language: contemporary playwriting in Scotland'. Aib on page 33
Scots fir baith historical an contemporary pleys. An the second wey A fu on page 40
cin argie that the interest o contemporary Scottish pleywrights in leid on page 44

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Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
nger poem by an unnamed local contemporary of Robert Burns. on page 47

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
developit the habit o singin contemporary songs takkin the mick oot o N on page 91

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Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
he toun he grew up in, no the contemporary toun. on page 95

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the sibness o Aulder Scots an contemporary Inglis has been viewed in dif
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
onception o the historical or contemporary Ulster dialect as a leid sepa
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Molière’s younger Italian contemporary and brither in the dramatic m
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
modern rhyming Scots for this contemporary vairsion o The Play o the Wat
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
aiblish him as "a colossus of contemporary Caledonian culture". As whit
rural hertland cuid hae sic a contemporary an progressive thrust tae it,
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Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ic an Scots respeck as leivin contemporary languages that are yaised in
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Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ic is a valuable addition tae contemporary Scottish culture. Hooanever,
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
e Scots - is never used as a contemporary means of everyday communicati
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
i Representations o Gender in Contemporary Scottish Theatre. Ither edeet
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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
sey, is “a common theme in contemporary lyric poetry” – takkin na
man, we’d like as no hae a contemporary portrait o her. Siccarly, we
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
s VI) alang wi poems by ither contemporary figures whae were also faimil
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Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
air. It’ll mak place-nemmes contemporary an accessible tae aabdy, an a
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@LairnScots tweeted
can listen folk talkin aboot contemporary issues in Scots: https://t.co (2020) twitter link
eos online, studyin the use o contemporary Scots at Banff Academy, an oo (2018) twitter link

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Introduction, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
a series o blethers, a lack o contemporary wirk suitable for aulder stud on page 9

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
s free entry, an sae daes the contemporary galleries 'Kunstnerforbundet' on page 15

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Ess wikk - usin contemporary Scots language resources tae (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
ces is wan aspect o the wider contemporary renaissance in Orkney Languag on page 1

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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
a better medium nor ruitless contemporary Inglish, for renderin auncien on page 34

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