A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

extension Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 6.4 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1513 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors13 11 2

Occurrences of extension in Corpus

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Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
ae set oot the costs o sic an extension. on page 42

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
cables; he says as he ran the extension lead fae the shed in through on page 7

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
It's an extension o meh bad intentions on page 95

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
"I'm building an extension to my house," Mongomery telt on page 98

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
• an ee tae the extension o Gaelic-Medium Education.
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ny and the stairheid, used by extension tae refer tae the fowk at bid
This is jist an extension o a process that haes been ga
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
- that his life (an mine by extension) is so devoid ay any purpose
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
extension
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e implyin that Gaelic (an, by extension, fowk wha speak it) is inhere
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
e, “sorry Boys, there’s nae extension”, and some of the new signin(2019) search twitter

@pmcm1355 tweeted
o a "deterrent", jist a penis extension fir inadequate politicians. (2022) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
ans are bored wi McInnes. The extension deal he was given efter turni (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
Contract extension priority fur those free at en(2020) search twitter