A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of differ in Corpus

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
y explanation, I'm sure, will differ from yours. on page 54

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Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
the device acceptit differ? on page 17

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Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
n us doun aathegither. Whitna differ oan yin horse?' on page 14

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
vour, ye'd never hae telt the differ atween that an Uncle Nick's s on page 71

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
creative', didnae mak up the differ fer the baith o them, an sae on page 113

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ssar owerset in the ettle tae differ fae Soothron. The ettle ahin on page 12
nummers. Hooanever, this can differ whan usin Scots, wi screivars on page 13

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Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
sune sein at the wes a mukkil differ atwein the Kildies' wark an t on page 43

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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
years, but A couldna see the differ in the wierin o the gouns. on page 125

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Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ung o backwards peasants. The differ, o coorse, is that by the tim on page 108

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
be worthwhile gin it made ony differ at the hinner end, bit Ah jal on page 56

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
mbol. A example o this is the differ atween the soonds o "ay" an "
ial spellins at aa is sae's a differ can be made atween homophones
le o a passage wrang whan nae differ's made in the spellin o the h
The'r a differ atween a sowel kennin their a
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Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
years, but I couldna see the differ in the wierin o the gouns.
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Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
s. A weel-kent example is the differ atween "wirk" (verb, aften wr
k", sae A canna masel see the differ. Whan A writes Scots for a ge
s sense tae me tae uphaud the differ for thae readers as dis say t
spaekers that disna see this differ haes a haurd time tryin tae t
eneral Scots A wad uphaud the differ.
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Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
wrang wi Douglas's Scots. The differ atween the Scots in the Wife
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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
uisage o sicna term, there a differ in thochts an repones. Some o
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ual apostrophes disna mak nae differ). Bit we sud ay hae in myne t
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
English-relate or no maks nae differ. Sae ye get happit, leetit, p
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
it becam awmaist a heresy tae differ wi the teachings that the fai
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
uil o Scots spellin that maks differ fae the Inglis jist for the s
1) makkin the differ fae Inglis at ony cost
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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
the age differ, the ceigarettes an the coal
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Fleemin, Sandy Nine Fragments - III, (Lowdown-L 2009) Central - Central, prose
ing haed chainged: it’s the differ atween wishin the war vampire
zed this wis a vampire. Sic a differ the ar atween wishin vampires
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
One way Scots an Patois differ is that Patios has developed
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
war marshallin, an unchancie differ kythed atween the weavers an
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
remembert that it wad mak nae differ tae his sicht. He strauchtent
e o degrees had made a muckle differ here on the muntain margins.
ama’s erse, it’ll mak nae differ tae the inemy. There nae sicn
ilt an woundit wad hae made a differ.
rmed miners wadna made muckle differ tae the affcome, an they wad
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Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
analysis. Ultimately whaur we differ is that – ironically for fo
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Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ns an conversations can mak a differ tae oor society, the difficul
aninfu conversation can mak a differ tae society. Encouragin the c
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
glish; although accents micht differ fae state tae state, it is En
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nedy @edinburghpaper i beg to differ but your entitled to your opi (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Wirds differ roon the countryside, on page 5

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
micht differ, it wad seem their shadows ar on page 34

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
a mous, sae that made little differ. Trowth tae tell, it didna le on page 25

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Accoonts differ o how Cyaard the Tattie Doodl on page 118

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
umman’s ull but it maks nae differ. They up an tell her fat A’
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Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
same result. An there’s the differ atween the vilipendars an the
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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Whit differ dis hid mak noo? on page 27

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Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ony registers, ilk suitid tae differ situaetions. E'en a teknicly
to thir clossest freinds i a differ leid – wi a differ, but owe
leid – wi a differ, but owerleppan, vocabular, g
dictionars at offer a dizzen differ spelleens an pronunciaetions
tories and poietry mad i mony differ weys ilk yaer. As a spokken v
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Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
e gyd beelo. A’ll ryt aboot differ weis o deuan Orcadian irthogr
an, an monee o us wil ai haed differ fok wir spokan tae wi differ
fok wir spokan tae wi differ tungs.
hins teu) o the saem wird cin differ fae poiïm tae poiïm, or een
ngfirm naraeshun, makan monee differ entreeweis fir differ levils
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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
1.3 Da differ atween a language an a dialec on page 11
nglish. De ir mair linguistic differ atween da twa o dem as de ir on page 12
relatit, bit d'ir enyoch o a differ atween dem tae be braali far on page 20
it'll no leet wi ivvri peerie differ at can be fun atween ivvri pa on page 22
4.3.1.1 Da differ atween da subject an da objec on page 53
Also on pages 61, 73, 78, 80
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Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
aecond, dae’r a grammatical differ i da wye at da sentence is pi
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Southern

Ulster