A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

modest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 2 1.5 0 0 0 9.7
Number of occurrences84 1 0 0 0 2
Number of authors7 3 1 2

Occurrences of modest 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, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ed, he needs tae be bit maire modest aboot it," ah says as ah give on page 44

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
Fower lines o Burns's wice an modest coonsel tae a young man in 17
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Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e actual muivment i price wis modest an the story owerhyped, but t
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
lights up the room. It’s a modest room and schizophrenic. The e
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
his neebor's shawl a mair modest affair, on page 18

1 matches

Ulster

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
e fog, For Ballynure's eydent modest cog O poetic art; Wha scrieve on page 30

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@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@carol_baraniuk Dinnae be sae modest :) craa crouse! I think thatÂ(2020) search twitter

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