A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

unnecessarily Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences32 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of unnecessarily in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
biguity, jargon, and vague or unnecessarily complex wording. on page 9

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay wheat, it is, makin it an unnecessarily laborious endeavour as ah dra
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
nt to be distributing turnips unnecessarily, do we?”
1 matches

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