A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

riddance Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 3 0 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences41 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of riddance in Corpus

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Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@elcourier good riddance - salmond is welcome to him (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Aye...gweed riddance! She wis a bad lot, richt enu on page 67

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he founert an sank – gweed riddance! A bowl o aipples sat on the
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"Guid riddance tae him." on page 4

1 matches

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