A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

desirable Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences64 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1

Occurrences of desirable in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
in loaf wis by faur the maist desirable, daurkest broon an crisp on t on page 23

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
ys apply fur Gaelic essential/desirable posts and that trainin needs on page 43
creivit form o Scots micht be desirable sae lang as it isnae prescrip on page 47

2 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e it is no jist possible, but desirable. This requires an independent
1 matches

Southern

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
course, no everybody wull be desirable, oor human efter a' an nane o
1 matches

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