A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

yourself Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.4 13.4 13.6 29.8 17.4 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences4326 9 3 3 1 1
Number of authors27 15 6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of yourself in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
of the gig, making a fool of yourself, fighting and then hanging ar on page 16

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'You will. When you find yourself a nice girl, n have a nice fl on page 37
ry tae look interested. 'Help yourself to a sandwich, in the meantim on page 58

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
'Do you consider yourself a guarded person, Daisy?' on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Robertson snapped. "Consider yourself this your one and final warni on page 194

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ister O'Connor, Please remove yourself from this classroom immediate on page 169

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
hind me. 'You don't seem like yourself. You were awful quiet in R.E. on page 50

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
"Och it's yourself, Davie... and sure now, I hav on page 92

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Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
nothing you can dae tae stap yourself from dying, slowly and painfu
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
t the wersh an unhelpfu Teach Yourself Chinese frae Gala Library: A
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
now? Does you no good getting yourself wound up. Here, I’ve got so
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Okay. You take care of yourself, and thanks for dealing with
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e’ve been hit! Brace! Brace yourself!” Beatrice, ower dumbfooner
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
: fur exemple, yersel/hersel (yourself/herself).
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
and you dinnae need to defend yourself from attacks like this or put(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
ery best tae ye mate.. Hoping yourself, and the family have a lovely (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
niac @SexyModelSammi seein it yourself m8 al gee sammi a follow lol (2020) twitter link
your training guys n am sure yourself n the lads will all b pleased (2021) twitter link
g may it continue - b oan to yourself and the wee man (2020) twitter link
or both the westside lads and yourself - happy new year n liked the (2021) twitter link
ttishCup @blackdiamondfm hope yourself and the team hae a guid yin a (2020) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nutes and you won't recognise yourself," said the beautician, pittin on page 83

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
tivities and amenities. Treat yourself to a Turkish bath - " on page 6
f accidental damage to either yourself or - " on page 37

2 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Another word and you'll find yourself on a charge!' His face wis pu on page 17

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Fit div ye caa yourself" said the Faan at linth. Sice on page 45

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Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
r,” quo the giraffe.”Make yourself comfortable.”
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@72redz1903 tweeted
l have the right tae consider yourself a Scot. (2020) twitter link

@glenlivetloon tweeted
best. We need more folks like yourself in parliament to start debunk(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
You might not care about yourself, but spare a thought for me! on page 8

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
stand what it's like, to free yourself from all this expectation, to on page 138

2 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
du dee! ('Come!', lit. 'Come yourself') on page 95

2 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Fancy yourself as a Christmas Elf?” gaffed
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Wellbeing within yourself on page 46

1 matches

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
Also 'scudded' as in when you yourself says 'ack ave scudded mesel!'(2020) search twitter