Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'modest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

modest	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	7
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
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
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	28.1	2	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of modest in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
his neebor's shawl a mair modest affair, on page 18

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ed, he needs tae be bit maire modest aboot it," ah says as ah give on page 44

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
Fower lines o Burns's wice an modest coonsel tae a young man in 17
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West Central

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e actual muivment i price wis modest an the story owerhyped, but t
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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
lights up the room. It’s a modest room and schizophrenic. The e
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ae perfection and is wearin a modest, knee-length red dress wi a t on page 8

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General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
noo ir gyely modest. on page 44

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@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@carol_baraniuk Dinnae be sae modest :) craa crouse! I think that�(2020)