A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

detector Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of detector in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
at the same in-built bullshit detector that she's goat. 'This auld c on page 104

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ears efter baith men took lee detector tests on the TV an thair stor
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
is a dreidfu aith unner a lie detector, a renunciation o the biblica
k Hsien. He’s a walking lie detector.”
2 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
I heid oot wie ma metal detector and shovel and wyde through t
It’s nae lang afore the detector’s beeping fast. I howk at t
2 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
a ticket to use that voltage detector???(2020) search twitter

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