Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tends	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.5	8.1	1.5	19.9	5.8	10.3	0
Number of occurrences	21	16	1	2	1	1	0
Number of authors	14	10	1	1	1	1

Occurrences of tends 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
n wey ae hings in storytellin tends tae pit the brunt oan charact on page vii
ger awfy deep wae a knife, it tends tae bleed; an she'd never foa on page 13

2 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
d that the hings that ma heid tends tae dae on page 18

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ars on radio or television it tends tae be hained in tae a nerra on page 12

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
For ordnar, explanator texts tends tae comprehend the follaein w on page 9
s o Scots. Thir soond chenges tends tae accoont for the greatest on page 64

3 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
tends tae the broon, on page 12

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
The coorse wird slang tends tae get clortit ontae ither u on page 9

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
daesna come fae its mids but tends tae spring fae the soothward
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
entral dialects, for example, tends ti think on the ‘oa’ soon
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
mill Stories, Robert McLellan tends ti uise tradeetional Scots ve
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“The virus tends to peak around this time, if
“Yes, the virus tends to peak around day ten, but y
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
that ends up wi the Wanderers tends no tae see ee tae ee wi the g
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
is means that whit we dae get tends tae be piecemeal, produced on
1 matches

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
n even border Scots. Research tends to keek ower the border.. Sho (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
miss hearan, yir wirk affens tends tae the elegaic an nostalgic,
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
lipach in hir aksent, bit hid tends tae baid firmlee whariver she
1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
d an wir lik his sheep dat he tends wi care. on page 39

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
oun throwe the centuries, yin tends tae leuk aback til ain’s ba
1 matches