A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

justify Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 3.5 1.5 0 17.4 0 3.9
Number of occurrences127 1 0 3 0 1
Number of authors10 7 1 1 1

Occurrences of justify in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n front ae the poor zebra tae justify why he's aboot tae munch him. on page 126

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o them made eneugh siller tae justify him bidin here. Bein an airti on page 113

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
folk that wid justify adoptin the sindry meisures t
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
we stert tae feel a need tae justify the claim at we are, efter aw
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Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
int government inactivity tae justify this dumfoonerin absence o on
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n fae McNulty’s attempt tae justify his incontrovertible place in
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@jax6754 tweeted
ns @VirginActiveUK If you can justify the £'s comin out yir bank c(2015) search twitter

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ks about the cost so need tae justify this mare!(2017) search twitter

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
es tae me, fir I really canna justify buyin dem. (She says wi a Wat(2021) search twitter
agine goin tae yun length tae justify racism!(2021) search twitter
ae bide in bed da day...I kin justify it noo I'm sure!(2021) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
'tests' tae justify daein naething. on page 60

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