A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

flexible Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences95 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 4 1 1

Occurrences of flexible in Corpus

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Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
"...ballad-Scots (is)...a flexible formulaic language which graz on page 59

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
t tae aa dialecks: it's no as flexible as a system whaur folk disna
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
a gey flexible approach tae preterites (simp
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Scots has a gey flexible approach tae preterites (simp
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
O situation ! She wid caw it 'flexible workin conditions'. Fu stop ! (2022) twitter link

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ommunication, designed tae be flexible an deen amon an alang wi ithe (2021) twitter link

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
er-Scots is that it's a deep, flexible idea and so it means differen(2020) search twitter