A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

exercises Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 4 1.5 19.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences128 1 2 0 1 0
Number of authors10 7 1 1 1

Occurrences of exercises 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

Niven, Liz Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
day wi a wean needin constant exercises an specialist equipment, aw t on page 87

1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Scots Government consultation exercises ettle at providin the chance
1 matches

Connelly, Gordon Celebrating Ithers, a letter tae somebody wirth celebratin, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
Creative writing exercises based on the theme of Celebra
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
t be ringin cos Danny finally exercises his right tae speak
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ust watched an saw a couple o exercises a hadnae thought o! Hee hee! (2014) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
ixt time a pupil says grammar exercises are pointless... https://t.co(2017) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
online an interactive reading exercises fir Tam O'Shanter an Holy Wil (2020) twitter link
dio. Hae a look at oor readin exercises - a text is read oot and the (2019) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
want to take you through some exercises which will increase your psyc on page 60

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
or calculaetors or classreum exercises o Arkieteck-Gods. Nae drive, on page 31
The aald exercises come tae her fingers an noo s on page 94

2 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
fir the weans bi wey o Scots exercises o ma ain. Plenty Doonhame wir(2020) search twitter