A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

insted Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 0 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences51 0 0 4 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of insted in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
And pit up insted somethin braw, on page 159

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
o dat tongue. Dis means at, insted o spaekin aboot a Shaetlan to
1. Da verb ta be insted o to have (or for dat maiter
4. ‘dem’ insted o English ‘those.’ Nottic
as if hit rhymed wi ‘bit’ insted o wi ‘baet’, whit’s wra
4 matches

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