A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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population Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words26.2 31.4 21.1 0 34.9 31 0
Number of occurrences8461 14 0 6 3 0
Number of authors35 24 7 3 1

Occurrences of population in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
yi fae the rest ae the school population, Wee guys n burds ir glancin on page 51

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Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
It's ainly oer hauf the population that'll suffer it on page 31

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
51 twa million Scots, oot o a population o jist ower five million, sig on page 52
aye pass the costs on tae the population at large. They hae pals on th on page 54
Weel, maist o the third o the population still uisein Scots as their f on page 65
un pretty weel wi maist o the population, tho there were aye some left on page 95
tin NO didnae turn hauf o oor population intae bluidthirsty financial on page 96
Also on pages 113, 123, 126, 136, 140
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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
ane o thi population on page 90

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
gs had o wanderin amang their population in disguise. The maist weel-k on page 16

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
coorse, a muckle dispersal o population frae Glesga whan hale swatche on page 9

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Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
thoosan fowk (oot o a Cornish population o 536,000) threip that they c on page 107

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
the maist o the Scots-spickin population is in the Wast o Scotland, an on page 56

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Douglas, Ashley Paternal genome drap-oot forders altruism in stieve populations, (Wiley Online Library 2022) Central, prose
Population stieveness has lang been thoc
in model fur tae airt-oot hoo population stieveness affects the potent
2 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
population; an
Gaelic-speakin population an for the future o the leid.
air important. Globalisation, population mobility, the technological r
3 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
ut noo there but 2% o Éire's population thit bide athin the Gaeltacht
tae speir whit percent o the population wad hae tae be Gaelic spikker
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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
t hauf o the warld’s growin population nou leives in ceities an this
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ibbes anerlie hauf the French population had the kind o speak that was
1 matches

Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
quality fir awmaist 30% o wir population.
1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Chairt shawin the Extent the Population and Revenues o the Principle
Chairt shawin the Extent the Population and Revenues o the Principle
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Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
ed tae fleg the general Roman population, or else uised as a handy fro
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Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
wk haed a roch time o it. The population o Scotland wis tiny. Nae mair
ch, but it pit a stap tae ony population growthe, for ae guid reason.
en sae muckle as uphaudin the population at its low level wis a sair f
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Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
couldnae be mair merkit. The population o Ballater is double that o B
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Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ummer owreweicht o the adults population stauns at a min-bogglin 65%.
ge o a nutritionally ignorant population. But tak advantage they certa
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Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
bahoukey’s. The puir beaver population was maist sairly afflictit. T
oond the perk. Haudin the elk population doun keeps the beavers joco a
. By this means the Blae Tory population micht be haudit doun ablaw 20
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Scottish surnames per heid o population in Jamaica than anywhere else
politricks intae Patois for a population that was (conveniently for th
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
an dae the maist guid for the population o this kintrae, is the Smokin
gien yet tae the dwynin o the population o Scotland.
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Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e simultaneously expandin its population throu biggin new hooses aroon
. Awmaist the hail island’s population is stappit intae a wee neuk o
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Nine point five percent o the population o Delhi wis Tibetan noo. But
g, or Turkistan as the Uighur population aye cried it, deleeverin thai
China abandoned a Han Chinese population here,” she telt him. “The
sion contrar the wusses o the population telt ye, in itsel, that somet
y o the 2ist century, certes, population muvement - ethnic refugees,
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McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e owerestimatin the strength, population an economic weill-bein o the
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
d. Noo that we hae an engaged population, we need tae press that hame,
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
n oot there, alangside a guid population o fairmers an tradesmen. Nooa
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
cotland - 1.7 per cent o the population - reportit that they had som
rd o Scotland’s 5.2 million population.
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@RickHJohnston tweeted
?????????????? has 85% of UK population and MP's. What England wants (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
men, the fermers and the hale population o' the UK. Sit doo(2021) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
uk will be a minority of the population - n al b up there huvin a pa (2021) twitter link

Doric

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
r 1.5 million fowk (30% o the population) spik Scots. In Aiberdeenshir
ae 119,078 fowk – 49% o the population ower the age o 3 (equal heich
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
d the DPBC model – Duguid's Population Behavioural Control.
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Leslie, Deborah Bittie aboot oor Doric dialect, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Inverurie, blog
e place aa their days, an the population is multi-cultural, multi-ling
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Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
an we improve the state o oor population’s health an tak the pressur
l, 20 per cent o Scotland’s population arna pit aff bi the high taxe
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Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
e amoont o fowk fa mak up the population o Fawkirk or Stirlin. A hertb
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Widney’s Fuil, (Mak Forrit 2017) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
id, wi nae much gaun on. Wi a population o less than a thoosand, fowk
1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
lands wi weel abeen 50% o the population claimin fluency.
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
e main fuid source o the hail population. Raither than simply attendin
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
rsity o fowk that maks up oor population. By plantin wildflooers alang
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
the diversity of our student population. (2021) twitter link
whining. Excess of 90% of the population still tae contract this disea (2020) twitter link

@McGoo1888 tweeted
ggling tae understand why the population has decided tae hate itself.. (2022) twitter link

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
da population o a place lik Shetland on page 19

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Population: aroon 23,000 on page 7
onythin linguistic left o da population aforehaand. on page 15
rkvall fan at ⅓ o da global population is monolingual, whaaras ⅔ i on page 19

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Williamson, Christie Shaetlan an compoonds a da richt, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, blog
ical an lang awa or iddirwise population fae whaarivvir iddir i da Cel
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Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
n the langage o the fek o the population. Thar wuid hev been nae lingu
he haunt o ae gey wheen o the population o Scotland, the day; i the ye
population. Ma prayer the day, i 2005 is
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