A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

naught Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.3 12.6 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2725 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of naught in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
nald drinks like a fish, he's naught but guid tae me and oor lassi on page xii
f again. The lassie who wants naught mair than tae be a star - a s on page xiv
v suited that dress mair, but naught ah say will coax hur oot o we on page 8
up at the empty, gold frame. Naught wis sacred tae hur. on page 9
last straw - five pounds is naught tae hur. on page 15
Also on pages 28, 54, 56, 58, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82
16 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Naught happens. No even a wee bark.
he internet. When ye’ve gat naught, ye’ve gat naught tae lose.
, ye’ve gat naught tae lose.
en a lot o them, ah’ve seen naught like this. Ye’d huv tae be
u rub it like it’s a genie. Naught happens. Ah fling it across t
8 matches

Wallace, Lorna An Ode Tae Tinder, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2020) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
An’ naught but hawf oor love affairs
1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
leaves naught but stoor ahint. on page 23

1 matches

Ulster

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
their wee rhymes and English naught ava
1 matches

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