A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contrary Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences75 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of contrary in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Virgin Mary, quite contrary, how can A no come inside? on page 55
a sweet darlin Mary, ye arnae contrary, it wasnae yer fault whit wen on page 56

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Despite protestations tae the contrary, this wis a clear attempt tae on page 24

1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
in kid yersel anythin tae the contrary. Ah’ve seen it aw recently.
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
otie o' masel as a wee bairn. Contrary tae popular belief aboot smok (2021) twitter link

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
n tae believe onythin tae the contrary.
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
They're sae contrary. on page 27

1 matches

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