A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pretendan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0 1.5 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences30 1 2 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of pretendan in Corpus

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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
l, for iss queer bairn lecked pretendan till be two foulk. "But id's on page 14

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
d back home and intae me bed, pretendan I'd been there aal night. on page 61

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
kan. Days o paece, forgettan, pretendan sheu wisno traikid by histry on page 73

1 matches

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