A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

persons Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 3 4.5 0 17.4 0 4.4
Number of occurrences136 3 0 3 0 1
Number of authors11 6 3 1 1

Occurrences of persons in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
his book, "Rule Forty-two. Aw persons mair'n a mile high tae leave on page 116

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
huid hear ony o thae indulgit persons . . . an therefore, afore God on page 41

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
d the differences between the persons. That's when ah realised ah c on page 7

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
it out of some important law persons grasp and ingested it quick,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
angande in the contre lede ma persons with hym bot thai that he wil
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
im he wis seen by a person or persons unknown who grabbed his weapo
1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
is book, "Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high till on page 114

1 matches

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
conversation wi the person or persons in front o ye. Wiz quite impr
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
lone? If yer gettin' aw Young Persons railcard aboot it fit aboot a(2015) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
in tree persons an twa numbers firbye, as sha on page 57
ssessive determiners fir tree persons an on page 65
an hae (idda siccint an third persons on page 71

3 matches

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
e nyirps; small insignificant persons, objectionable niggling littl on page 33

1 matches

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