Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

literal	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	3.5	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	7	7	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	6

Occurrences of literal in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
a slow rise, either. It wis a literal leap. "TABLE! ah screamed. At on page 35

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ative escape wid turn intae a literal real yin. on page 69

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
It's no o'coorse a literal question, but neither is the on page 72

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
here is the difference beween literal and metaphorical. If I break on page 37

2 matches

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
d a series o symbols, wha’s literal meanin is tint tae us nou, th
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
s’ (as opposed tae the mair literal: ‘for always and on’).
1 matches