A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

prestige Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 0 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences117 0 0 4 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of prestige in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
essed wis leid expectation an prestige - an the wey they can lead t on page 33

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
at gied Gleswegian its covert prestige. The eimage o Gleswegian as ' on page 9

1 matches

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
tung, or is it tae bigg a hie prestige, 'naitional' language frae aw on page 108

1 matches

Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
cause great skaith in terms o prestige and warld pouer, no tae menti
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
euk ower frae Scots as the ‘prestige’ language?1 Or deed wis it
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
cots had steidit itsel as the prestige leid o the kinrick. It wis no
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ge is sometimes caad negative prestige. Da best kent examples o dis
otivation to perpetuate a low-prestige vernacular with no official s
"A low-prestige vernacular with no official s
ll in Shaetlan ta gie hit dat prestige, dat offeecial status, an dat
4 matches

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