A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

distinctive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.7 1.5 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1613 1 0 1 0 1
Number of authors14 11 1 1 1

Occurrences of distinctive in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
course, is the fact there's a distinctive lack ae talent walkin up and on page 167

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
that still cin celebrate its distinctive culture that ye cin learn thi on page 66

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
As thon distinctive intro fillt the air on page 61

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
nction an gar anither rich an distinctive idiom gang oot o the warld. L on page 15

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Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
uries, it continues tae hae a distinctive impact on Scottish society. S on page 3

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
allous the leid tae express a distinctive culture an pynt o view. Richt on page 9

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
important pairt o Scotland's distinctive linguistic an cultural herita
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
. Eng., into which they weave distinctive Sc. words or spellings someti
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
turnt oot tae be Nissart, the distinctive
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e the ‘considerable body of distinctive formal Latinate diction which
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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
an fails tae treat Scots as a distinctive wrutten medium
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@LairnScots tweeted
irners can listen oot fir the distinctive markers o speech fae the Nort (2020) twitter link

Doric

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
ammes whilk will reinvigorate distinctive stories linked tae local cult
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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
e will always be some form of distinctive Ayrshire speech, Caithnessian
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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ce maks hit baith diverse an' distinctive. Nane o' thae thrie tradeetio on page 15

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