A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

define Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 4 3 0 5.8 0 7.7
Number of occurrences138 2 0 1 0 2
Number of authors12 8 1 1 2

Occurrences of define in Corpus

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Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
ur tae establish hoo best tae define geographic airts. on page 18

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
emics that haes attemptit tae define an categorise the threids. Ac on page 16

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
ity, it is necessar forby tae define
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
unya, said that; 'We need tae define the exact wants o ilka differ
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Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
d the warld. It is a vote tae define British vailues as bein singu
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Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
fferent kintra, but we shidna define oor difference based simply o
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
abuin, Gaelic and Scots baith define the school / an sgoil forby y
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@LairnScots tweeted
se yer favourite Scots wirds, define them, gie a example o how ye (2018) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
the kind that in the end, may define a good season overall (2022) twitter link
kward squad has been used tae define striking miners, Greenham Com (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
anguage at you can identifee, define, promote, read or write fluen
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Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
n 'lang wi' stakehaulders tae define strategic priorities an' tae on page 8

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
n' thaim in oor commonity wha define thaimsels es 'ither' an' thai on page 58

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