contractions | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 3.7 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 29.1 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of occurrences | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of authors | 6 | 5 | 1 |
Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
easy tae read. It shuidna use contractions. on page 11
1 matches
Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
w long it's been between your contractions?' on page xvi
that's a minute between your contractions. Hold off pushing a little lo on page xix
3 matches
Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
Scots, no juist wi the modern contractions like "what was't", but the ky
1 matches
Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
felt unner his fingertips the contractions o the smaa muscles o her face
1 matches