A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

purchase Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.1 5.5 8.9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1711 6 0 0 0 0
Number of authors15 9 6

Occurrences of purchase in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
chunky trainer tries tae find purchase on the brick wall, behind the on page 15

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
s ears. ‘It’s no a simple purchase ah’m hinking. We’ve both
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Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
reet that gie the cameras nae purchase. The fishers hae nae greens n
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
industrial districts by hire-purchase firms and smaa shopkeepers as
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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
ay and Hogmanay (aye, a guilt purchase), an then, suddent, there’s
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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
ibute one shilling toward the purchase of a gift, to be presented to
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@jax6754 tweeted
Im torn an dinae ken whit tae purchase you playing Glasgow in April (2014) search twitter
Hill_Official I'vé tried tae purchase this many times this last wee(2015) search twitter
sted. How much ow where can I purchase. Any East Lothian rates or is(2016) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Linlithgow. Delighted wae ma purchase. Hooever, I remain fair scunn(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
r brissills - a herd u still purchase it doon at east fortune merca (2020) twitter link

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
' implements £170,000. First purchase o' manure £13/10 per ton, se on page 29

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
inform you that a Compulsory Purchase Order has been issued....' 'F on page 8

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
up in a baa an enjey yer new purchase wi a het drink if yer needin on page 12

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Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
t tae haud eneuch tae gie him purchase back up the waa an thocht he
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
£10 bonus fin ye make yer 1st purchase. See https://t.co/aaoUyajYlK (2019) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
a pair bit wid accept single purchase, stale smell on baith & well (2019) search twitter

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