A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lairns Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 0 9.9 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences73 0 1 1 0 2
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of lairns in Corpus

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Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
kens naething ayont what Thoo lairns him. Amen.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
he Slab Boys, Phil shockingly lairns at the hinneren o the play th
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
cement, A dae ken hoo fast it lairns thon as ye shift aroon. Hoo d(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Astrid lairns Darling a new dance on page 81

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
lairnin context, whit bairns lairns aboot dialect can onnly be OI
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
s, even tha laist o thaim, an lairns ithers tae dae tha same, wull on page 5

2 matches

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