A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contraction Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 4 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences88 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 5

Occurrences of contraction in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
phes, bit fir some Glaswegian contraction ae standart English ir Scots on page vi

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
rophe comprehendit is athin a contraction (they had/they'd): on page 33

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
The next contraction stings mair than when ah pick on page xix

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
SSE and Scots ‘gonnae’; a contraction o Scots ‘gaun tae’ (going
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
’ is ‘wean’: at hert, a contraction o ‘wee ane’.
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ye didnae ken 'goodbye' is a contraction o 'God be with you'. Braw pro(2020) search twitter
speaking a sentence. It was a contraction of "said I". "Sie, ye'll need(2020) search twitter

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