A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wouldn’t Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.6 0 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences20 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 2

Occurrences of wouldn’t in Corpus

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Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
for Keep Calm and carry on – wouldn’t that look better on those pos(2014) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
Wouldn’t it be fair tae get this persp (2022) twitter link