A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fairest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences74 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of fairest 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

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Neither dae ah feel like the fairest in the land at the minute. If on page 42
ah'm certainly no lookin the fairest in the land. on page 62

2 matches

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae ken whilk ane's the maist fairest, tharefore here is whit the e
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
er naething but the heichest, fairest staundarts that‟s
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Crown she thocht this wiz the fairest thing she could dee. The soli
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
nae relegation wid have been fairest. Nae muckle sympathy for hair (2020) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The fairest wind which fills her sails on page 32

1 matches

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