A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lexicon Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.5 0 0 11.6 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences95 0 0 2 1 1
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of lexicon in Corpus

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Central

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
It's a lexicon am arnae drunk, no by jingo
It's a lexicon am arnae drunk, no by jingo
It's a lexicon am arnae drunk, no by jingo
It's a lexicon am arnae drunk, no by jingo
4 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
t we maun hae ae vocabular an lexicon o modern polemical terms, con(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
In terms o’ dir lexicon.
1 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
s him! De haaf language wis a lexicon o 'tabu' wirds, it cam fae de(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
aries an a generally acceptit lexicon o Scots wirds yaised athort t(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
mcalister Aye, we hae a quare lexicon, ye big glipe ye! (2015) twitter link