A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

standardisation Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 3 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences73 2 0 1 1 0
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of standardisation in Corpus

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Central

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
onuments laid the grund for a standardisation o spellin – the King James
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
@ByLeavesWeLive Dae ye mean ‘standardisation’? Ironic that the word ‘sta(2019) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
4/9 …or this een, aboot the standardisation o Scots, wi a fascinatin bit (2019) twitter link

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Introduction, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
e're a wyes aff fae ony kin o standardisation, here's folk spikkin, scrievi on page 9
Since there's nae official standardisation o Doric/NE Scots yet, we made on page 10

2 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
One argument against a standardisation of Scots spelling is that one
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
insch @HeatherMc1960 @OorVyce Standardisation is opposed by more than a few(2020) search twitter