A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

detective Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 9 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2318 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of detective in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
d: Wid it no be braw tae be a detective? Weel, I hae, and a wheen o i on page 1
gn that she micht end up as a detective. A guid few folk that are aye on page 6
'Mibbe ye should become a detective yin day,' he said. on page 21
at yin day she micht become a detective. When he said that, her first on page 23
ae hersel, 'Aye, I could be a detective. But I doot it'll be on page 24
Also on pages 63, 69, 78, 79
14 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
-league criminal an she wis a detective hud caught him in the act. on page 1

3 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
elementary detective work in a dictionar an here,
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
na till the next day that the detective sergeant and a constable peye
. “JESUS!” Turnin tae the detective he said, “Did ye see that?
“Oot o the wye!” The detective teen a look in the windae but
table stood aside tae let the detective gyang in first. The detective
gyang in first. The detective laughed at this and said, “
5 matches

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