A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

understandin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 6.2 6 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences1812 4 0 0 2 0
Number of authors11 7 3 1

Occurrences of understandin in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
aw ah goat fae her wis little understandin and even maire naggin. on page 62
Ah pause. Understandin what he meant but hopin tae f on page 133
cos he seems tae huv a decent understandin ae English. And before ah ken on page 151
se him a holiday soon fur his understandin. The taxi then soon arrives a on page 176
walkin in and gees me a warm, understandin smile on page 178

5 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
hes o oor planet, is ayont ma understandin. Bit the remnants o Empire Lo on page 117

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
set doun sound, fertile wi understandin on page 107

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
time, wis this the dawn o’ understandin’? The ba’ wis duly return
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
rimer), and thochts vital tae understandin my place in the warld were ha
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
need tae git massel a clearer understandin ae ma prognosis. Tae say that
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
swer questions tae assess yer understandin. :-) An follae m (2019) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
tland for their attention and understandin but especially tae ma wee wif (2021) twitter link

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
ang or facin the limits o his understandin on page 23

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
intae Dugald's custody on the understandin he wid be o guid behaviour. A on page 118

1 matches

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
ir Doric skills an raxx their understandin;
1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
an that it wid be paid on the understandin that the greenhoose become th
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
aughter. Due to their lack of understandin ma anger and often oor commun(2020) search twitter
? At foremaist, a huv gae tae understandin its meanin... as ye mentioned(2020) search twitter