A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

forefathers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 1.5 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences51 1 0 0 3 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of forefathers in Corpus

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Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Ah cannae ignore the part ma forefathers played in engenderin this sno
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and even een o the Laird’s forefathers hid been a pirate on the seve
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
r fascinating read and ma twa forefathers Andrew and John Taylor MacM l(2020) search twitter
That’s where ma 6 forefathers lived and died apart fae ma g(2020) search twitter
andancer1977 Who is yer royal forefathers? a have a link to bloody ane?(2020) search twitter