A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contractions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 2 0 0 29.1 0 0
Number of occurrences94 0 0 5 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of contractions 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

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Contractions came dilations tae on page 70

1 matches

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

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

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
2.4.3 Contractions on page 36

5 matches

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