A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contexts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 5.1 4.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1510 3 1 0 1 0
Number of authors10 5 3 1 1

Occurrences of contexts in Corpus

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Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e warsle Scots intae academic contexts, ane o the recurrent deifficu
introduced intae transparent contexts, i.e. the surroondin text sud
2 matches

Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
hame, wi nae presence in the contexts thit gie a leid the wecht o o
tae yaise Scots in offeicial contexts like job interviews wioot bei
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ts wrutten doon i mair formal contexts, they wadna get that wee grue
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ae yaise in owersettin. Ither contexts, hooivver, micht demand a mai
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
c refers tae itsel in a wheen contexts as “the Gaelic” (a’ Gh
ise singular nouns in certain contexts whaur plurals are fordert in
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
different hings in different contexts. Is it a rubbish heap, a chao (2019) twitter link
ae ye yaise them in different contexts? Tae mean different hings? (2018) twitter link

Doric

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
n an leid skills in different contexts;
1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
spikkin Scots in professional contexts tae stairt, bit noo A'm graan(2020) search twitter

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
e used for much mair in ither contexts and I am HERE for it... ??).(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
l offended if denser Scots in contexts like this wis subtitled: tae
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
grew up wi yaisin it in ither contexts forby. It's no couthie wather(2020) search twitter