A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

expects Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of expects 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 Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
wi a luik thit expects nae answer on page 9

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
in aboot stuff. Dunno why she expects the red-carpet treatment here on page 169

1 matches

Briggs, Susi The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Princess and the Grumphieman, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
t a glaikit thing! A Princess expects gifts tae be studded wi jewel on page 85

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
e likes o’ hum. Cus nae wan expects that kinda hing in the librar
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
a mammoth task as every child expects something sweet in their stoc
1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
The penel expects the chairter obleegements oan on page 53

1 matches

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