Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'assume'

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Use in varieties of Scots

assume	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.9	23	14
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central	91.7	2	1
SEC - (South) East Central	12.2	5	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.4	2	2
GLA - Glasgow	20.5	4	2
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	10.5	8	6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of assume in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
d reportit missin an cud only assume that he haed gaen baak tae a on page 30

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
he battle teuk place, we maun assume , wis Wallace’s decision.
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Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
s he teuk at Stirlin Brig. We assume this left Wallace alane at th
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s jean poacket, keys which ah assume tae be his hoose yins, and he on page 43
paper in her hand wae what ah assume tae be the foodbank voucher. on page 125
jokin wae an aulder couple ah assume, tae be her mum and dad who r on page 172
ed in a group ae women who ah assume tae be her mates. Ah dinnae k on page 174
aroond his neck. Ah naturally assume that he must be a doactur. on page 177

5 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
jist intuition!” A can only assume that the phrase “Golf, Tang
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“I can only assume that Welfare takes the view t
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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Alan's attack. Is it wrong to assume that someone else has had the on page 54

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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah assume it’s a rhetorical question
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
er wan - in whit ah kin only assume is a show ay support - while
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
me an nods in a waiy that ah assume he’s done many times in his
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
A Scottish Poet maun assume on page 17

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General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
aboot it, for a chynge. Let's assume that, if a thing's wirth sayi on page 3

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
s in Standard English. Do not assume that because a word is spelle on page 18

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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
u oncome. It’s wicelike tae assume that the langage o maist Scot
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
coud assume that, like Hiberno-Inglish, S
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
re is no compelling reason to assume female authorship”.
oo leads academic critics tae assume that anonymous poems maun hae
2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
0th C. A Scottish poet maun assume, the burden o his peoples d(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
@Thuckster__ Safe tae assume it involved a fuckton o drugs(2020)