A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tak' Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words24.9 11.6 3 0 0 0 247.9
Number of occurrences8123 2 0 0 0 56
Number of authors6 3 1 2

Occurrences of tak' in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose

20 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
0 matches

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
ocks road, rail an' nae power Tak's the hale country tae its kne on page 14

2 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
But Ah seen hir tak'in tae a boy on the Diamon, on page 21
Hae nivir tak'ed aboot salmon, on page 23

9 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government

47 matches

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