A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

existed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 2 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences74 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of existed in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ough I'm shuir racist thochts existed through ignorance. on page 23

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
thum wid even believe that he existed. Insteed, ah jist played dumb on page 197

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
bags seemed tae have maybe no existed.Maybe they never were there?
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
That he ever existed, enhances Man’s lot,
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
a saunt whae micht hae nivver existed clatter an clype a fowkloric on page 3

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the wee boat that nae langer existed. She jist sat there wi her ha
1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
nicol Didna keen such a thing existed but they soond lik a good ide(2021) search twitter