A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

omen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.5 1.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences63 1 0 2 0 0
Number of authors6 3 1 2

Occurrences of omen in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
an. If bein born at sea is an omen, ma son will huv a rare life. on page xix

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
ed bi vyces alane - a fittin omen for a debate aboot whit fowk
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
er n man utd scored - its an omen - b oan the reds lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
fair tribbled bi aathin o ill-omen. Gin a fisherman saw a blaik
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Dim Riv. I kent it wis a bad omen an I wis right, he wis deid a on page 51

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
they were warm it wis a good omen. If cold, however, it meant y(2020) search twitter

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