A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

marker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 1.5 6 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences113 4 0 4 0 0
Number of authors6 2 3 1

Occurrences of marker in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
cer that huv left a permanent marker oan ma psyche. Any smidgen ae
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ey yaise 'ken' as a discourse marker they're less aware o it. (2018) twitter link
dy use ‘ken’ as a discourse marker? 'I went oot yesterday, ken, (2018) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
pathie. She pickit up a black marker an screived 'Enjoy yer 'space on page 21

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ae await the next pauper. Nae marker wiz allowed.
st stone money can buy as her marker!” He teen one last look at
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
m Usually the aul traivellers marker te get oot on the road for su(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
duced influence: da possesive marker - s, laek da cat's tail, fir on page 36
ural. Da Shaetlan existential marker is in fact on page 87
n dis is døn wi da invariant marker at, an hit's a braali common on page 97

4 matches

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