A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

surprises Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.5 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences119 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors9 7 1 1

Occurrences of surprises 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

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ghter o weans. There micht be surprises, micht even be snaw. Tae aw a on page 77

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
interrupted, however. As Aldo surprises me wae a Jack Daniels and Cok on page 80
Aldo actually surprises the pair ae us though. on page 132

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
veesit. | am reddin up ither surprises that are even mair unco and m on page 60

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
fter anither, in a sang fou o surprises. on page 94

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ate’s through the roof. Nae surprises there.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The characters is fu o surprises the likes o Mrs. Kaur, Fiona'
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e be, we’ve haed a fair few surprises ower the lest 24 hours.
1 matches

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
1 be? There’s absolutely nae surprises in the line up, as good as we (2020) twitter link

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ns have been good and full of surprises!?? (2021) twitter link