A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dots Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences75 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of dots 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.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
wee circles fur een, twa dots fur nostrils an stops. It's T on page 1

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
The chatter an the wee dots an scurryin colours that worr on page 3

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
's Hindus no Buddhas that pit dots on thir heids an they widda k on page 18

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
when I close my eyes, wee red dots wi meaning I cannae imagine,
I could see this wee dust in dots floating above the field, fal
2 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Three dots. Jenna's typin... on page 97

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
WJ? They hae thon daft German dots owre a wheen o vowels! (2015) twitter link