Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'observe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

observe	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.5	15	13
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	1
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.6	3	2
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	9.2	7	7
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 observe in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
, they warm the hert wi thair observe o the ferlies that can come w
An observe bi the Ettrick Shepherd
2 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
k he explored the capital tae observe the spate o its tumults, intr on page 101

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
spick ower muckle. They dinna observe . They wadna see a warble-flee
l it laid an egg in thaim. Ah observe .” He stuck oot his bottom l
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
overin oor ma heid. And as ah observe folk dashin back and forth ac
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
the surroundin tables, ah kin observe aw ay the usual faces. At thi
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
n for, whaur he kennt he cuid observe whit wis gaun on in the muckl on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
back an' watch the fire. Jist observe it. Watch how it jist does it on page

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
and observe between summers on page 12

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
anent the Picts, he maks the observe that, athout yer leid, 'You'd on page 90

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
a cuttin wurd? Ae element or observe wul be naething byordnar, the on page 91

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
by thaim. Ae creetic makin an observe anent Google’s information-
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
nishes his bit screive wi the observe that we shuidna complain on t
1 matches

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er: hoo extensively will fowk observe guidelines o social distancin(2020)