Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'shouldn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

shouldn	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.6	12	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
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	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.4	2	1
GLA - Glasgow	20.5	4	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	2
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 shouldn 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

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
ve her a small allowance, she shouldn't be very demanding... or bri on page 35

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
o Does that mean Miller et al shouldnt count appearances against (2020) twitter link

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
with his wife. If ever a man shouldn't wear a kilt, it's him. Fit (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
likes of him and Attenborough shouldnt grow auld ????(2020)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
that doesn’t mean that you shouldn ’t have a home of your own -
ll turnt tae Beatrice. “You shouldn ’t have gone to all this tro
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'A woman of your age shouldn't be behaving like that, c'mo on page 8
or, but this isn't right. Men shouldn't compete against women in sp on page 12

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
step forward, though I know I shouldn't. Should I? Is there a right on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
wouldn’t, don’t, won’t, shouldn ’t). (Tak tent forby o SSE a
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
???? Mrs Hs input.. Well, you shouldn't have made so many.. Talk ab (2023) twitter link