A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

possessions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 1.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences52 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of possessions in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
rs o ane o oor maist precious possessions. Henry Cockburn cried Scots a on page 8

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
st precious thing amang aw ma possessions. But I've nivver even heard o on page 96

1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
droon an ark. Aa Minnie's sma possessions hid bin flitted tae Granny Br
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
flit, they were carting their possessions tae the ither end o the isle
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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ek wir een. Dey wir treasured possessions an aften wir ornamental. Rich
1 matches

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