A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

object Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words23.4 18.5 4.5 0 203.4 0 4.4
Number of occurrences7536 3 0 35 0 1
Number of authors15 9 3 2 1

Occurrences of object in Corpus

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Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
wis a delicate operation; the object o the exercise wis tae study on page 39

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
meant. Somethin, some foreign object, something made o metal, had on page 51
rtit tae fish for the foreign object. Then he haud it, an the jour on page 52

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e, she said, An money wis nae object where wid yi go an whit wid y on page 112

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Wir pairties queuein tae object, on page 31

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
'The object o asterbaw, Kat,' said Dina, on page 19

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
aein a clear subject + verb + object mak. This gars the reader tak on page 11
n yon forby. If 'this' is the object nearest the speaker, an 'that on page 28

4 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
maist o the time, and didnae object. on page xvii
'All she did wis object tae gettin ignore and now she on page 27

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
an lippen on this report, the object didna shoot or drap stracht d
in Embra spottit anither orra object up in the lift, a muckle obje
up in the lift, a muckle object, lut up, with the shape o a c
fowk in Aiberdeen seen a rid object in the air that gied aff a ye
eek o fuel. At ane pynt a sma object cam oot fae the bigger ane an
20 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
r. So, presumably you won’t object if I go ahead and give Mr. Mc
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
up — a thing naebody could object til in itsel — tae pit by a
res Re-education Comatee (the object o this wis tae tame the ratto
mysel dinna like them. Wir ae object in takkin thir things is for
3 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Jake wis the maist unromantic object o a human bein that onybody c
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
nds. I pull up the thin black object – I see fae the apple logo
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
elf control nae tae stick the object o his jibes fair squarr in hi
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ed o bein sic a peerie mootie object!" on page 34
¶ as du's bidden, du cooardie object!" an at da lang an da lent sh on page 38
sh," tocht Alice. Poor peerie object, hit wis pechin laek a steam- on page 62
So shö set da peerie object ting doon, an felt a braa wei on page 63
id'n dat be richt, du witless object?" on page 75
Also on pages 117
6 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
da een at does sumthin) an da object form (da een at sumthin is dà on page 52
iffer atween da subject an da object pronoun in Shaetlan on page 53
a object, whit dey caa intransitive ve on page 76
gument at's døin sumthin) an object(s) (da arguments at sumthin's on page 82
twa arguments (a subject an a object) at haes sum kind o relations on page 83
Also on pages 84, 95
29 matches

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
ward person or even a footery object i.e. one which is difficult t(2020) search twitter