A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spelling Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words22.5 31.4 7.5 9.9 17.4 0 8.9
Number of occurrences7261 5 1 3 0 2
Number of authors19 9 5 1 3 2

Occurrences of spelling in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Spelling on page 2
Eik 2: Common spelling conventions on page 3
elp ye spell Scots words. Oor spelling sheed, wrutten bi Martin Trav on page 5
rmal Soothron. Oor gremmar an spelling is that thirlt tae hoo the So on page 6
athoot haein tae decode Scots spelling an gremmar forby. on page 7
Also on pages 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 40, 41, 43, 62, 63, 64
50 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
s tryin tae capture a range o spelling). This produced the nugget th on page 20

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ined it by using an anglified spelling and grammar (p. 9).’ Houani
1 matches

Heron, Caitlin Groonded, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
I got bad spelling in ma report
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
his hamelt Jeddart dialeck wi spelling that Scots Tung readers micht
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
Dinnae be fashin’ aboot the spelling fer wan hing. An’ when ye g
An’ when ye gie up oan the spelling ye’ll fin’ that the words
2 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
s? Naebody needs to fix their spelling with me ??(2020) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
v ye dinn this wan? (Sorry my spelling is bad) https://t.co/JVXgtjLQ (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
c roondaboot is faster and ur spelling is awfill lol (2021) twitter link
rian hus a bit bother wae his spelling at times - bless him lol (2020) twitter link
rom the fm 2 day - literally spelling out solitary confinement for (2021) twitter link

Doric

Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber Fiona and the Ring, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
llege and used it to pass her spelling test wi flying colours. Howev
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@NatalieAHood I'm spelling ma name Sandie noo ????(2020) search twitter

@beast_afc tweeted
@morganmurray__ @morganmlmx Spelling patter? https://t.co/JTHGpLbj(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
@FinHall Scam thing wrang spelling disna even say fit its for ch(2020) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
rd". Nae idea if it's e richt spelling. It wiz usually if somb'dy wi(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a tell them I'd gotten all me spelling wrong. on page 128

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
st a standardisation of Scots spelling is that one of the languageâ€
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
use da word geng no sure o da spelling. My mam used tae say going ta

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
I read online is littered wi spelling mistaks, does nobody ever tin (2020) twitter link

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
hard tae aye be waatchin yer spelling for thon oul Twitter disnae h(2020) search twitter

@the_gellick tweeted
the aul Ulster Scots: daicent spelling apairt fae "Scatts!? https:// (2014) twitter link