A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts
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Use in varieties of Scots sayin'
Corpus occurrences
Central
Doric / Northern
Orkney
Shetland
Southern
Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words 4.4
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Number of occurrences 14 10
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Number of authors 8
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Occurrences of sayin' 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
Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws , (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
5 matches
McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid , (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
0 matches
McKillop, Roger The Staff , (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
0 matches
Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow , (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
0 matches
@g_hibby tweeted
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Doric
@Manuforti1968 tweeted
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Southern
The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood , (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
0 matches
Ulster
Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems , (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
1 matches