A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

exemple Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words16.9 27.2 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences5453 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors10 9 1

Occurrences of exemple in Corpus

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Central

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
noo? The dauntin but hertenin exemple o William Laughton Lorimer's on page vi

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
k o fiddle-an-box clubs as an exemple, they survive simply because on page 75
ublic schuils an Oxbridge. Ae exemple o this happenit a few years b on page 80

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
buik is thocht o as a perfeck exemple o its kin. Onybody wha ettles on page 62

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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
igh (the Ooter Hebrides). Fur exemple, ferlie Pechtish sculpture ca
yebidin stane sculptures. Fur exemple, a female figure, wi lang hai
2 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
e ken that. Tak Croatian, fir exemple: its modren grammar wis shapi
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
An exemple fae near at haund shaws us cl
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
US English is anither exemple o a variety o Global English;
As a non-English exemple o siblike language varieties,
’ in a Scottish accent, fur exemple, compared wi its elongatit vo
gey kenable vowel soonds. Fur exemple, the vowel soonds in wirds si
reduced verb paradigm’. Fur exemple, ‘I seen that on social med
11 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
o’, in temporal phrases. An exemple sentence micht be sowt like:
™consequently’ etc. The twa exemple sentences ablow set oot the s
‘the same’. Anither guid exemple o thon lexical affinity atwee
‘bairn’ – anither braw exemple o the Norse influence in Scot
belt/Glesgae/urban bias. Fur exemple, whan fowk in Glesgae arenae
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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
The maist staun-oot exemple o a wumman hidin in plain sic
Fur exemple, poem 89 is a hertsair lament
wi poem 49; faur fae it. Fur exemple, Penelope is aince mair invok
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
the poems. It is a gey early exemple o Sapphic verse, fur which th
European languages forby: fur exemple, the German wird fur ‘pairt
text; which is pleyed on, fur exemple, in the Rammstein sang, ‘Me
erience in life and luve. Fur exemple, there is ae poem (66) on mar
in Modern Scots verbs – fur exemple, indewit (Modern English: end
7 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
e coonterculture enjeyed, fur exemple Cream an Jimi Hendrix, enflue
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
t tae. Tak a glisk at the twa exemple sentences ablow.
s fae Germanic roots. Anither exemple o a Germanic-won wird in Gael
tin atween the twa leids. Fur exemple, on lairnin the Gaelic seyin
In the exemple abuin, Gaelic and Scots baith
wey that English doesnae. Fur exemple, Scots refers tae speikin “
8 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
earin face masks. Whit a puir exemple tae set folk.(2020) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
fferent) a wis jist yaesin an exemple ov the wurd. Didnae mean tae (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tan tae see the aalder folk's exemple first, mibbe more oot o fear, on page 131

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