A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

diy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 1.5 6 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences93 4 0 1 0 1
Number of authors8 3 3 1 1

Occurrences of diy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
aw that, A'm no a big fan o DIY Scots an winna be publishin o on page 6

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
B,Ed, RYA, DIY.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
tae heid straight back fur ma DIY kit. Leavin this plastic gang
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rty nine ~ Kemnay area enjoys DIY, cooking, horse riding, walki on page 52

2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
aring aboot box sets, baking, diy, time.....reading....I wish (2020) twitter link

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
is how his wife describes his DIY skills (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
are room #pinechest #storage #diy #flatpackedfurniture… https: (2018) twitter link

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
lster-Scots is naethin but a "DIY language", "farmer talk" or a
1 matches

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