Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sha	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.9	5	3	9.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	13	10	2	1	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	4	1	1

Occurrences of sha 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

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
the interjection o the soond Sha or Zha tae gie emphasis an we on page 23

7 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Oor teacher tolt us it wis sha-toe, said Karen, No cha-too. on page 19

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
Oor teacher tolt us it wis sha-toe, said Karen, No cha-too.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
and jl for that - its just a sha (2021) twitter link

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
em tae th floers dee n th shas turn n a. I lifted is (2020) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
fir spesific merkir wirds at sha the spaeker’s Orcadian. Thi
1 matches