A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

twang Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.6 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences139 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors12 8 4

Occurrences of twang in Corpus

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Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
an bainisht ilka smitch o her twang. Nou she wis haudin furth in on page 29

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
fir that Dundee twang on page 26

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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
blinkin tae hear the Cockney twang firsthaun for the first time on page 125

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Hardie, George Lallans 73 - Pop Gaes the Idol, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Hamilton, poetry
he kens a fremit Yankee twang on page 114

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Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
blinkin tae hear the Cockney twang firsthaun for the first time
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
in the 80s haes mair o a city twang aboot thaim; the Scots ward-h
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Eneuch tae mak him forget the twang
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McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
un an goes in a tuneful Irish twang:
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@billykayscot tweeted
He probably did he an English twang on tap o his native Scots vyc(2020) search twitter

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 90 - The Trump, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, poetry
spiers, in this affa American twang, on page 34

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r the top, anyway?" The nasal twang o the wifie sittin in the cor on page 8

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@DoricPhrases tweeted
Affa fine tae hear The Doric twang spiken in Sunset Song loon @I(2015) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
rica and there might be a wee twang tae the accent changed ever s (2021) twitter link

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