A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

plural Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.2 14.6 1.5 9.9 139.5 0 4.4
Number of occurrences5629 1 1 24 0 1
Number of authors13 9 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of plural in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
For tae mak maist nouns plural in Scots, eik - s, or - es if on page 26
nouns, screivars can mak them plural bi eikin - n. on page 27
nged whan the subject becomes plural. For an instance, in the sent on page 32

7 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
he same wird in anither form (plural, past tense, etc.) or wi anit on page 14

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
aa this first time ahint thon plural pronoun, John Law maun admit on page 4

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
h o saws wi ‘They that’ + plural verb, eg: ‘They that hain a
weir ti uise - s endins efter plural verbs, an Tulloch’s verdict
(p. 72)) but maistly uises plural verbs wi plural nouns. This w
verbs wi plural nouns. This works aaricht in
4 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ter-perfect, a saicont-person plural pronoon youse, etc., quaisten
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
us’! Closely relatit is the plural form o the wird for suspender
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
s, lat’s drap the Editorial plural for personal apologies likely
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s (neutral as tae possession, plural); thoo (possessor) haes mair
s (neutral as tae possession, plural) nor me (possessor); Ah (poss
s (neutral as tae possession, plural) as thee (possessor); thoo (a
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
singular noon (year) efter a plural numeral. The Danish, fur Nord
ar verb endins in - s efter a plural subjeck, tae the objeck form
In the plural, ‘high-heid-yins’ micht w
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ngular form o “year”. The plural form wid be bliadhnaichean).
Saicont Person Plural Pronoon
d Gaelic hae a saicont person plural pronoon; as, indeed, dae the
elic thu (singular) and sibh (plural) and Scots you/ye (singular)
you/ye (singular) and youse (plural) wi English you (singular) an
6 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
"pakora" wis the singular an plural, like "fish" or "sheep". ????(2020) search twitter

Doric

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
an wiz transported intae the plural an seconds later her een trac
1 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
that wae 'face' tae avoid the plural!) An you'll noteece I write ' on page 8

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
'r mair as ee dug (da noun is plural), bit da basic meaneen o 'dug on page 43
Plural: Mair as een o da sam on page 44
English) de'r a kind o group plural an aa caaed da associative pl on page 49
4.1.4.1 Associative plural in Shaetlan on page 50
or tae mair as ee body (idda plural). De'r twa forms dependin on on page 52
Also on pages 54, 57, 58, 64, 65, 87, 94
21 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
r wirds, a singular verb wi a plural subject.
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
feature caaed da "associative plural". Hit can come athin diffren
dat ir lackin da associative plural.

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
3. At in oor culturally plural society ivry cultural tradeet on page 16

1 matches

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