A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dilemma Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.1 6 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences104 4 1 0 1 0
Number of authors9 4 3 1 1

Occurrences of dilemma in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
uction day. Ah wis left wae a dilemma though, eh? Sit oan ma ain? o on page 188

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
risk o bein nae leid ava. The dilemma o Scots writers is whither ta
1 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Socialists faces the ae dilemma as the capitalists: we want t
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Jock’s dilemma he wid ne’er confess.
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Duncans Dilemma on page 13
Ay, weel, it wis a bittie o a dilemma fir ma, like, bit ere wis nae on page 16

2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
raintWorks @fear_eile It’s a dilemma many of us have faced, but, g (2021) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
oo sic a dilemma, go tae bed n read ma book 'p(2011) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
st Mainland, present me wae a dilemma.
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
“Geordie” doon which a huv dilemma with this identity question! (2020) search twitter