A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

discern Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 0 0 0 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences74 0 0 0 1 2
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of discern in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
whilk wis mair nor Odin culd discern oot o his yin ee. on page 14

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
tae ae lassie than whit they discern. on page 15

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
eam ay be heard, an I finally discern that we're in B flat. I tan o on page 3

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
An in the strath ye whiles discern
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ist gei hert-heisin n’, tae discern that, i
1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Bot we can nir discern. on page 35
Nir discern on page 39

2 matches

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