Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scotticisms	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.2	8.6	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	17	17	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	3	3

Occurrences of scotticisms in Corpus

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Slee Scotticisms on page 2
pit ower yer pynt? See Covert Scotticisms bi Antoni Uri forby. on page 5
Slee Scotticisms on page 38
Instances o slee Scotticisms on page 39

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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘covert’ and ‘overt’ Scotticisms.
Overt Scotticisms, on the ither haun, are a mai
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@LairnScots tweeted
fir Scots? Whit aboot Hume's 'Scotticisms'? https://t.co/4uZTIpF72e htt (2020) twitter link
htenment, an Hume's infamous 'Scotticisms', here: https://t.co/vcz5Sdas (2020) twitter link
shows mair examples, fae the 'Scotticisms', that we wid consider #Scots (2020) twitter link
airt o this is the focus oan 'Scotticisms'. See here: https://t.co/D54m (2019) twitter link
t David Hume's famous list o 'Scotticisms' tae avoid includit sic words (2019) twitter link