Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

background	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.9	4	7.4	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	13	8	5	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	12	7	5

Occurrences of background in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ce despite the madness in the background, yet we spot each other fee f on page 3

1 matches

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
s a prospective maw kennin ma background, so that left it tae me - li on page 102

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ther than hingin aroon in the background. Jist think, said Yvonne, it on page 169

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ng for Sc. of any kind. Their background is St. Eng., into which they
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ve they need tae ken the real background tae enjoy whit's happenin in

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ies. It has a rich historical background (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
out any excess baggage in the background - n the same will apply when (2020) twitter link
y private messages - aye the background stuff etc etc - me am ticket (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ty (preferably with q farming background) for fun, friendship, long wa on page 52

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
, wi the fire cracklin in the background an naebody utterin a word.
1 matches

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
yer in a group an yer in the background an ye'd tae mackie-on yer spi
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e will the pain awa intae the background. Jist as things began tae eas
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
http://t.co/Pjsnoo0cU3 an in background ye can see ma elephant tapest(2014) search twitter