A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

couldni Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences97 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of couldni in Corpus

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Central

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
at Loch Lomond because he “Couldni’ be bothered daein’ it an
n’ got stuck in his boat, A couldni’ have got tae him afore he
hers tae sit an’ looked bit couldni’ see him. A led the rest ta
3 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
'Cause we couldni' paint nae mair!
Alsa we couldni’ lang remain,
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
e be outdone, Adie said, “A couldni’ mind whit ye sid, Sur. Sae
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ok o’ betrayed pathos, that couldni’ be beaten by a whipped Spa
1 matches

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@GerryinAberdeen I gied up. Couldni open i gate to get doon i sta(2019) search twitter
@ronald_davidson Hid till. Couldni be ersed though.(2020) search twitter