A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

variety Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words19.4 18.1 11.9 19.9 93 0 4.4
Number of occurrences6336 8 2 16 0 1
Number of authors31 17 6 2 5 1

Occurrences of variety in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
Scots dialect in the range an variety ae its influences. Glesca's p on page v

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Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
opular stage, the music ha an variety whaur a lively an vital yiss on page 37

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
lific petty criminals. A vast variety ae shoaplifters, drug dealers on page 169

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ie years he has lectured on a variety o topics, includin Scotland's on page I

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Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
is a gifted spikker at a wide variety o organisations, an gied free on page 4

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
S IN THIS wee book come fae a variety o sources. Some are fae auld on page 9
lunch - o the mainly liquid variety - at the Wig an Pen. Jock ha on page 75
amplifiers, speakers and the variety © stringit instruments that on page 101

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
o the non-politically correck variety that wes current no sae lang on page 7

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Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tle is "to isolate a literary variety". Gin the ploy wis as simple- on page 4

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
erhaps on account of the wide variety of substances ingested by the
employment history boasted a variety of hings, the likes of mime,
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
cots huv developed a Scottish variety o English (that differs fae t
tae sympatheese wi linguistic variety (even if they dinna yaise aw
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
al-like dilution o ae langage variety through mellin wi anither. Th
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
“parasitic second-language variety”, but it’s a pairt o the
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ghan, whaur the transeetional variety o Sooth Ulster Inglish or Hib
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Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ae ither body cam up wi sic a variety o them, inventin aw but the s
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
When yuh kill ‘variety’,
nstream reggae performed at a variety show by the entertainment sta
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
cer, hert disease an a sindry variety o bairns' illnesses. This Act
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ck intae yer affections, an a variety ay methods ay pullin it aff.
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Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
t week i Glesca an wull see a variety o cultures frae roon the warl
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
kit up maistly o the language variety that is Scottish Staunart Eng
r ‘SSE’) is the naitional variety o pluricentric Global English
Anither variety o Global English is the staun
nglish is anither exemple o a variety o Global English; although ac
nglish, as a sindry naitional variety o Global English?
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@bigandymccoll tweeted
y cheered reading through the variety of superb/funny/clear-minded (2022) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
At this year's Royal Variety Show on page 15

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Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
great lang country wi a hale variety o' climates. Bit geographical on page 25

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ae ony supermercat an enjey a variety o cheese we coud only dream o on page 6
the fuidcourt far ye'll fin a variety o international diets. on page 10

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Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
cultural heirskip an regional variety o Scots unique tae Aiberdeens
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
in better than the hame-grown variety, aa pride an greed an vanity
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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
n, possibly o the twelve bore variety.
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Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
Sadly though, a variety o wildflooers are slowly but
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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
So wae a variety o stories fae The Battle o Su on page 34

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Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
ir is deusno hae the scope an variety o an archiepelago’s mony-wa
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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
life on wir hill is da human variety, bit it wisna aye lack dat. A on page 92

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ls as bein spaekers o a Scots variety, nidder dø dey see demsels a on page 7
Hoo important a language variety is tae da fokk an da sense o on page 9
viable is ony idder language variety, we ey caa da language wi its on page 12
English is fae da Wast Saxon variety. We dunna hae muckle left o M on page 14
fir Shaetlan tae be kent as a variety in its ain richt. on page 20

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Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
n country the language is the variety used in both speech and writi
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Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ast twartree days an offers a variety o flavours tae sook. Feth, yo
Dey sported a variety o hairstyles an beards. Some
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Enjoyin hain a variety o feathered visitors tae my g(2014) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ing oot rersearch intae hit's variety an' extent. on page 30

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