A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

observed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.1 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences118 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors11 8 2 1

Occurrences of observed in Corpus

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Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
is desk tae look at thaim. He observed the wee white dot in the midd on page 42

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Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
talgic themes. Katja Lenz his observed that a motivation fir this so on page 37

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
...many of the country people observed very uncommon phenomena in th
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Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
an expert on animal behaviour observed, “As the beavers spread and
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Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The bright mornin ah’d observed fae the windae is a memory no
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
he’ war a ceremony that wis observed ilka ouk ithoot fail. First c
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
le up an estuary, his grannie observed.
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
se words indeed. As DHT I wis observed many times......with mixed su (2022) twitter link

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
was aa there was. A holy text observed on page 10

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ir hairts like a hairy wirm," observed the Maan o the Hoose. on page 63

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Big Bridder, bein observed by Da Auld Een, readyin da oo(2020) search twitter