A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

guesses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of guesses in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'I'll gie ye three guesses, Rabbit. Howkin holes in the on page 90

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
model for spellin, sae makkin guesses by analogy wi ither soons
in, hence the hypothesis o ‘guesses by analogy’ that produces d
2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Whuppity Stoorie, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
erous tae ye and gie ye three guesses."
1 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Fit aafa aisy guesses ye speir!" gurl't Humphy Dump on page 78

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
coming tae yer jigger'? Guid guesses fae the class. #scottishtrave (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
ntasy) allous ye tae mak wild guesses aboot whit language might deu
1 matches

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