A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

runners Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2 1.5 29.8 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences94 1 3 1 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of runners in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah studied the form ae the runners and riders until ma decision on page 30
ae the screen ah kin see the runners fur the three o' cloack at Do on page 36
eyed "Lads, they're the best runners ah've ever hud." on page 133
, that's fur sure. None ae ma runners will pick up or droap oaff fu on page 142

4 matches

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
in the last 3rd will see two runners playing off him e.g. Hedges. (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a and a read o the paper. The runners are joost gaetheran at the fe on page 86

3 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
Runners
1 matches

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