A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

overheard Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of overheard in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
s really jist a formality, ah overheard her tellin Linsey an Heather. on page 169

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'Really?' Harry says. 'I overheard the teachers saying on page 50
'Well, if what ma pal jist overheard is correct, actually pretty w on page 51

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
aboot some phone call she’d overheard him huvin. Callin him fur eve
1 matches

Doric

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Overheard some laddie saying they shoul(2016) search twitter