A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sez Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 7.2 7.5 0 5.8 0 44.3
Number of occurrences3014 5 0 1 0 10
Number of authors8 2 1 1 4

Occurrences of sez in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2017 ISBN: 978-1785300592) Central - Glasgow, weans
"Pure dead brilliant!" sez the Gruffalo. "A moose jist f on page 16
"Zat right?" sez the Gruffalo, tryin no tae la on page 17
"Aw naw!" Sammy sez. "Awright, wee moose?" on page 18
"See, Ah tellt ye," sez the moose wi a swaggerin tone on page 19
"Haw, auld yin!" sez the moose. "Ye in there? Hull on page 20

7 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
Ah did meet him wance," sez the bold Big G, on page 4
you the Bad Moose?" "No me," sez the snake. on page 12
ght, awright, cool yer jets," sez the wean. on page 13
he bus, you're no the moose," sez wee G. on page 16
"Awright, fair do's," sez the Gruffalo's Wean, on page 17
Also on pages 24
6 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
but the fellar owver theeerr sez it’s alwaaays reeeally lyte
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Tales Fae The Doric Side - Overheard at Wetherspoons, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
"That'll be £750", the quine sez, on page 32

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
get the better o me, ma lad,' sez I, an syne I gaithered kinnli on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
. 'Wis he as coorse as aabody sez?'
1 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
'sjetlandsk', sez he, on page 27

1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
She sez tha catter's changeit me. on page 42
Sez, "Fresian kye whut colours th on page 58

2 matches

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
“Cum on,” sez Conor suddenlik. “Thon’s
r tha fae. Val’s mither aye sez at, gin ye fun yersel in wi a
tha disco wus near owre, Dot sez, “Luk yous twa, A wull lat
ce. Wull we gae fer a rin,” sez Conor, whan thai haed heft be
4 matches

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
the boy sez ye'll niver regret,
1 matches

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ll, I niver in all ma puff!" "Sez I tae me sez she tae he" and (2019) search twitter
@THorslips Boysadear, sez I tae ye, it’s gei an hard t(2020) search twitter

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