Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

prescriptive	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.8	3	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	6	6	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	5	5

Occurrences of prescriptive in Corpus

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Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
esirable sae lang as it isnae prescriptive. on page 47

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Lallans winna be editorially prescriptive, an will leuk for quality in on page 4

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
a braid core vocabulary an a prescriptive grammar (mair David Purves no
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
– aw as guid Scots as onie prescriptive purist could wish for.
ention til. We may hae the ‘prescriptive grammar’ in the future but
2 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
prescriptive grammar
1 matches