A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

don’t Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 4 6 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences158 4 0 1 0 2
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of don’t in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
4 She’s a lovely auld woman. Don’t know if she even has coffee ?(2020) search twitter
Don’t be a fud, #WearAMask https://(2020) search twitter

@ionafyfe tweeted
not too warm in Glasgow and I don’t think it’s much warmer in Bi(2020) search twitter

@iainnicol tweeted
realfifer @JamesAithie Bigots don’t help indy. Dinna blame the me(2020) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
it’s that Maw”.... ?? ... “Don’t bother cumin hame!” ??. ????(2019) search twitter
ch! Cumoan tae @ElginCityFC , don’t fold noo......??(2019) search twitter
@sheenz_m_ Aye! Don’t be “panic” buyin thum Noo ?(2020) search twitter
@kingkeg58 A don’t huv a leader....(2020) search twitter

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
go at https://t.co/rsYRy5pw1o Don’t forget your virtual dabber! h(2018) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
ae disagree with that, but, I don’t think misogyny and domestic v (2020) twitter link
ural Marxist by students that don’t know what that means. They ju (2020) twitter link
is moment in history - but I don’t think we learn onything fae o (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
And “I hear dee” means “I don’t believe you for a second” ??(2019) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
cot. Magic on the tongue, but don’t take my word for it, listen h(2020) search twitter
me what I just said because I don’t know these words!) ??(2020) search twitter