A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

oscar Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences64 0 0 2 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of oscar in Corpus

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Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ys, "Man, ye deserve a bluidy Oscar so ye dae!" on page 90

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde.' on page 8
he's walked straicht oot o an Oscar Wilde play. Talk aboot bein e on page 9

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
got a kick in the heid. Puir Oscar,that wis him hyena bait.”
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Dis oscar winning sketch fae Uyeasound (2018) search twitter
hopeful/thankful) when i hear Oscar Charlie firing up, especially(2016) search twitter