A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

owt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.5 0 0 5.8 41.3 0
Number of occurrences105 0 0 1 4 0
Number of authors6 3 1 2

Occurrences of owt in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
t loud. No that ye's paid for owt. Ye's were weel seen tae that on page 76

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ull ae wee wheels. Never kens owt that's gaun oan. Ay got a wee on page 1

1 matches

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e the hoose cried oot, “Get owt of here, what on earth do you
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
mean – a wisnae a nancy or owt like that. An oddball. No sur
tae find work. No that he got owt tae start wi’, but before l
2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
ptied hit inta da pan. ‘Dat owt ta wish her belly fine an cle
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
h times-tables disnae tell is owt: let's try Geography. Lundin on page 18
e, an 00've nae time tae wash owt atween brews." on page 71

2 matches

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ow ee spelt eet? Ee could get owt tae fit abody in there. A lot
whae arrive wunnae contribute owt. Bit then a dar say, juist li
2 matches

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