A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dukes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.5 3 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences95 2 0 1 0 1
Number of authors7 3 2 1 1

Occurrences of dukes in Corpus

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Central

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
order o rank: the keings, the dukes, the lairds, an richt thro ti on page 42

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
gentry gaun awa back tae the Dukes o Gordon, an hou on pey day t
ugger for ony screivers , nor dukes nor gentry either." Let's how
2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Boswell’s Coort, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
afore her, the gryte gran Dukes o Gordon.
alive or deid, nor dukes nor gentry naither.
2 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Jist a pucklie for the "Dukes" An the rhubarb in the orra n on page 15

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@TacketyBeets Aye fite Dukes ??(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
l never ken! An da hens an da dukes’ll no be lang cleanin up da
1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ErskineNathan Dinnae hae mony Dukes roon my way! Bit o a niche wu (2014) twitter link