A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

discretion Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 3.5 3 0 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences107 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of discretion in Corpus

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Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
e leuks tae be a great deal o discretion gien tae Scots Meenisters in on page 20
the local authoritie haes fou discretion tae implement the meisures se on page 53

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Screivars shuid ettle at discretion whan conseederin kittlesome s on page 14

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
kin be suspendit at the sole discretion o the operator subject, in th
Thi operator hiz discretion tae suspend the normally appl
iz slippery still. You wak wi discretion cairryin a bairn. Safer tae s
3 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
shair Ah cud lippen tae thair discretion ...”
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ve ersel: she's a stranger te discretion and disna suffer feels glaidl on page 58

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
voice rung oot, 'you have no discretion. There's a time and a place f on page 74

1 matches

Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
discretion. on page 8

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