A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

markin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.1 6 0 0 17.4 0 9.7
Number of occurrences1712 0 0 3 0 2
Number of authors14 10 2 2

Occurrences of markin 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

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
markin a scrowe on page 44

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
lyin in bed dain some school markin, eh? and suddenly stoaped wha on page 70

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
in jist as Mister Morris is markin her aff. Punishment exercise, on page 47
s heid back doon an continued markin his papers. Nicola made an O- on page 169

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
markin his purpose lack at hame, on page 18

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
cher, was sittin at her desk, markin a wheen o jotters. on page 37

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Can ye no see the markin?
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
rong ay people scuttlin aboot markin the beginnins ay the mornin r
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
s the arched sandstone towers markin the entrance tae the footbrid
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
id use a pair of tights. When markin’ Adie’s paper, it was fou
ed tae me, indignantly, efter markin’ her furst test in her new
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
printin, nae photocopyin, nae markin: https://t.co/uzId2ZsS5B #Sco (2019) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ony knives his dad wir oot re-markin lugs. John wis da onnly ane a on page 73

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
3.2 Inflectional morphemes: Markin wirds fir grammatical informa on page 43
lan haes twa different wyes o markin negation: a on page 88

2 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The markin ar itsel a cast oot scrat. on page 42

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Yeirs Oo scuil fae markin time on page 37

1 matches

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