A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mistakes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6 7.4 5.9 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2015 4 1 0 0 0
Number of authors16 11 4 1

Occurrences of mistakes 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

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
an he's made mistakes, but he's still here; still f on page 13

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
Thur's spellin mistakes in every other word. Ah swear on page 4

1 matches

Aitken, Jim Lallans 104 - A Pauchle o Thochts oan the Middle Aist, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
us. An we keep makin the same mistakes an gie rise tae the monsters on page 24
tine we see aw the same eejit mistakes. Abody agreed thit there shou on page 25
t gaes tae show thit the same mistakes keep gettin made aw the time. on page 26

3 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
naebuddies mistakes. on page 41

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ts asperities, correcting its mistakes, embellishing its naked detai on page 69

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
wi his job. Aw richt, he made mistakes. That time an arra had duntit
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
same mistakes,
mistakes
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
need tae avoid makkin the ae mistakes again.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ve an breathe, an he’s made mistakes, but he’s still here; still
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
on. Leave it up tae the refs, mistakes and aw. (2022) twitter link

@raiphsays tweeted
s capable a learnin fae he’s mistakes! Nae Tory ever cin!(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Brian_Pacey at your age - mistakes r a problem m8 - nae worries (2020) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
With aa 'em mistakes ye'd think we'd be learnin on page 158

1 matches

Banff Academy Aiberdeenshire Bairns an Young Fowk’s Chairter , (GIRFEC 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
enced. Realise that wi aa mak mistakes, an mak sure an gie us the in
1 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
nish laughing. If yi iver mak mistakes in life yi hiv tae kane yi ji
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
eas there. There were as many mistakes fan McCrorie was at the back (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
a get hid right. I meed a few mistakes. on page 8

1 matches

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