A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

preposition Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.5 0 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences85 0 0 3 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of preposition in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
be tentie and no confuse the preposition ‘for’ and the numeral ‘
land-specific vocabulary; the preposition ‘outwith’ is a kenable ex
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
reference tae the patriot’s preposition that is ‘outwith’ (or ‘
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
Preposition Drapoot
esent in English; namely, the preposition “of”. Fur exemple, compar
2 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
rd startit wi a consonant. Da preposition on descends fae on page 78
translates tae StE 'for': da preposition fir on page 80

3 matches

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