A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

purposes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 12.9 1.5 0 0 31 8.9
Number of occurrences3125 1 0 0 3 2
Number of authors16 11 1 2 2

Occurrences of purposes 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

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
gaun, an asides, he hud ither purposes in comin. on page 138

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Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
speech, redeemed for literary purposes, of Argyle Street, Glasgow, o on page 36
speech, redeemed for literary purposes, of Argyle Street, Glasgow, o on page 39
speech, redeemed for literary purposes, [up til a pint, o coorse!] o on page 40

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
one airplane fer surveillance purposes that's six year late awready on page 120

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
boadies fer medical research purposes in Edinburgh in the 1820s. In on page 108

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
eir uiss o the tongue for new purposes. Thus the language is biggit on page 9
onal or minority leid for the purposes o Pairt II o the chairter. Th on page 18

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
no be uised bit for symbolic purposes. It micht be worthwhile gin i on page 56

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
onal or minority leid for the purposes o
Scotland for the purposes o this Inquiry. Hooanever, fo
s Inquiry. Hooanever, for the purposes o the neist
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
dern Scots. But for practical purposes we can start wi Robert Fergus
1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
s we need baith for different purposes, or yaise a mixture o baith f
e a mixture o baith for ither purposes as we often dae, wi mair or l
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ndustrial unit ah need fur ma purposes an ah sprint oer tae it, ma b
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
the siller gien for the same purposes tae the mither language, Scot
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
g ti uise Scots for offeicial purposes at aa, sen the language uised
the language uised for sicna purposes is aften mankit bi the fact t
2 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
es or o acts contrair til the purposes and principles o the Unitit N
purposes o the Unitit Nations win forr
case be exercised conter the purposes and
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
kinna English for immigration purposes?
as weel as for entertainment purposes?
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@RickHJohnston tweeted
t written Scots for offeicial purposes wad be a muckle loup forrit. (2022) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
a nail on the waa for readin purposes.) Ay, wi were aa fine pleased on page 72

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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
s a leid uissfu for serrin aw purposes o lyfe, it is nou wantin, eft on page 34

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Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
tae its oreegins an purposes.
A read at, tae aa intents an purposes it’s
2 matches

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
stle an Armoy. He, an for the purposes o oor yarn the day we'll call on page 44

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Fer the purposes o' the plen we ir definin' pu on page 50

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