A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

upwards Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.6 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences119 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 2

Occurrences of upwards in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
cruntie, wizened auld buddie, upwards o saxty, wi sherp spitefu een on page 136

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
(meanin prices are aye gangin upwards tae ensure mair profit), the on page 137

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
r button, and the lift birled upwards intae the sky. on page 169

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Fir upwards o six thoosand year, on page 92

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
denly, as his hovernut birled upwards tae jouk a fleein daud o rock on page 16

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Peerin upwards in the licht pollutit nicht on page 107

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
intonation on questions: the upwards muvement is frae a laich rait on page 9

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
cratch in yin garden going so upwards n leaning that it overhung th
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Hsien held oot his haun, luif upwards, an for a split saicont she t
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Doric

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
or the same brand ye’ll pey upwards o a tenner, for a pack o 20.
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Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
ern hatchet, does she no push upwards wi baith hauns on the knife.
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