A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spaces Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 6.7 4.5 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences1913 3 0 0 0 3
Number of authors15 10 3 2

Occurrences of spaces 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

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
remember wis the letters had spaces in thim whir the wurds had be on page 76

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Orbitin Man's mechanics o spaces frae Charles's Wain on page 7
rae the fauldit corners o the spaces on page 11

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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
eas, sent us back tae sílent spaces whaur we need nae mair Scots
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Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
an the airchers in aboot the spaces o the schiltron. Atween them
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Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h wall opposite the parkin’ spaces reserved for The Secretary, C
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McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
s leavin’ easily explorable spaces. We were in the middle o’ t
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Lehane, Matt Cubismo Part II, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
in the spaces on an aff the baa
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Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
re o political debate, openin spaces that mair an fowk can identif
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McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
press, ye canna see the gapin spaces ahint thaim. This is the Pote
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
atching george clarks amazing spaces al - wee bit mair intulectua (2021) twitter link
many sports at the wide open spaces at the meadows - its sum ven (2021) twitter link
s tweet guys - the wide open spaces of cavalry park n no fans - (2020) twitter link

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
spaces that mak ye feel safe - hame on page 35

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
h, Oslo has plenty mair green spaces tae keep yer leggies an yer m on page 16

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ht tae luik forrit til. Still spaces. https://t.co/CgOGDQr3uZ (2019) twitter link

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
roond fameeliar spaces, on page 46

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
dicated Ulster-Scots cultural spaces in Norlin Airlan an' less agi on page 46
he plen we ir definin' public spaces es: on page 50

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