Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'raeson'

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Use in varieties of Scots

raeson	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	8.4	28	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	81.4	14	5
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	21.9	9	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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 raeson 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.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
aa i your beds!" Some gae ee raeson an some anidder, but dey aa g on page 32
lice couldna tink o ony richt raeson, an da Caterpillar seemed ta on page 46
yin naethin for a moment: "da raeson is, A'm no aafil sure aboot d on page 91
in his mind, yon: he haes nae raeson for nae lamentation, du kens. on page 95
"Dat's da raeson dey're caa'd lessons," da Gry on page 98
Also on pages 102, 103
8 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Alec's sister, dat's da onnly raeson he dances wi dee, he's a poof on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ithoot raeson - but deep doon on page 111

1 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ome pooerful. Den, da voice o raeson telt him somethin aboot dis w
ohn froze. Dat peerie voice o raeson dat had been nigglin at his m
awa fae him, dat sam voice o raeson echoed trow John's haed: "Du
3 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Fir some raeson dis feels mair lik a Mondee a(2021)

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
For this raeson , the kin o orthography uized
like this (no that the'r ony raeson for herkin back tae Middle Sc
The raeson for wantin speecial spellins
r wirds like this is "aesy", "raeson ", "spaek" an "daecent".
phoneme. This is anither guid raeson for no uizin "ei" aawhaur, or
5 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
a instant, gled A'v a genuine raeson for cryin in again, or mibbie
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
nt tae uise it, but the'r nae raeson for the writer hissel tae gae
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
the Laitin an the Greek. The raeson he sees Scots as "scant" is t
ons that Scots disna hae. The raeson he douts he haes "nae uther c
2 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
he widworkin. But thay fand a raeson for it, an it haed seemed men on page 19
unweelness' cam first wi guid raeson. Syne she myndit her o hou af on page 24
rt, tho, the war juist the ae raeson for his jynin. Yon wis the ti on page 28

3 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Anither raeson an expository register maun b
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
pular culture baith. Is it bi raeson that thair fundin wins til th on page 5

1 matches