A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts
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Corpus occurrences
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Doric / Northern
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Occurences normalised per million words 1.8
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Number of occurrences 6 4
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Occurrences of seeking 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
Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither? , (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, bloge knew not, having wandred in seeking of her sheep, and sleept upon matches
McNulty, Victoria Hame , (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetryWanten, attention seeking , hysterical me. matches
@RickHJohnston tweeted. Best option for any country seeking effective democracy. https:// (2022) twitter link gh - av no problem with them seeking land to stay on and its a pit (2021) twitter link
Doric
@DoricPhrases tweetedA reader is seeking the Doric for Mid Life Crisis (2017) search twitter Southern
Thompson, James My Borderlands , (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetrySeeking out the knowes and hollows on page 47