A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

preference Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences53 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of preference in Corpus

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Central

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
ilk bodie cumms on the leit o preference, an, wi siccan gait, makkin s
1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Ma personal preference is niver tae adjust the line
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n, a size too small, bein the preference.
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
vel at the piana; bit his ain preference wis for the jaw's hairp. He w on page 88

1 matches

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
the candidates in order o’ preference fan ye dinna like naen o’ t
1 matches

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