A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mcbain Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 7.6 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1515 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of mcbain in Corpus

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
an a young jyner cried Hecky McBain. Ian realised that they maun on page 58
'Juist as weel I'm no Hecky McBain,' Cherlie said, 'He micht hae on page 59
lugger, 'Whaur's that bastart McBain?' on page 60
cht for the trip?' he speirt. McBain shuik him bi the han, on page 61

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Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
mp wis the editor, an Barclay McBain a young reporter keen tae pri
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adult buik. Ah wis readin Ed McBain afore that. https://t.co/IAw5(2020) search twitter

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