A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

prepositions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 1 0 9.9 40.7 0 0
Number of occurrences102 0 1 7 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of prepositions in Corpus

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Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
A wid draa yer attention til prepositions and adverbs like aback and ab
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
’, biggit fae the twa Scots prepositions ‘oot’ and ‘wi’.
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
wi its own grammar, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, and soonds.
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
s øsed fir adverbs an strong prepositions an da waik/unstressed form fi on page 31
6 Prepositions on page 78
Da choice o prepositions can say a lok. We aa bide IN on page 79
(prepositions): Da man stüd ON da stane / on page 80

7 matches

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