A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sayings Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences84 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of sayings in Corpus

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Central

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Kynoch’s Doric Proverbs and Sayings haes a wheen saws beginnin wi
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
. We will share oor favourite sayings ae hers and marvel at her com
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
look @stewartbremner 's Scots sayings fir inspiration: https://t.co (2021) twitter link
yer lairners tae mak a Scots sayings calendar? See this yin fae @s (2017) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Dhammapada. Sayings of the Buddha
Dhammapada: Sayings of the Buddha
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ikk some great Doric phrases, sayings an words @scottishweek http:/(2015) search twitter

Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
ht enouch, whin wae hear thir sayings that hid wis "better a moose
1 matches

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