Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

uncommon	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	2.5	1.5	0	5.8	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	8	5	1	0	1	0	1
Number of authors	7	4	1		1		1

Occurrences of uncommon in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
It hud tae be said, he wis an uncommon bonnie-lookin cheil, wi stoat on page 134

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
peckit forbye? It wisnae that uncommon that ye wuid hear somebuddie on page 68

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
country people observed very uncommon phenomena in the air (which t
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
in the poem “Integrity’s uncommon!”
Intergity’s uncommon, when aw’s said an’ din!
2 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
e Mock Turtle; "but id sounds uncommon nonsense." on page 100

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Hit isna uncommon fir languages an plaesses tae on page 8

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
e Mock Turtle; "yit it shanes uncommon biether." on page 105

1 matches