A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tong Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 0 1.5 59.6 0 0 0
Number of occurrences70 1 6 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of tong in Corpus

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Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Wishin' him, an' Anne a tong an' happy retirement on page 13

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ens, nae lungs, nae hass, nae tong, nae will, undeeman abeun her on page 31
tae', but affens, "keep thee tong sneckid." Margit kens whit we on page 97
Haa wi light-ap letters, in a tong thay deu an dinno spaek, spel on page 126

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
screed wis wrote in this aesy tong. Sae nae wunner at, whan sheu
omrads an femlies wi a differ tong? This quaistions bring oot dy
govrenment is differ fae the tong o haem, whar monolinguality i
3 matches

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