A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

selective Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of selective in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
him, cause half oor class are selective mutes an the rest think thir on page 169

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
In Coort his selective amnesia, on page 145

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
on - obviously al need tae b selective - so sumbuddy will b left oo (2020) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
r Consi’s comments but being selective on fit he actually said. (2020) twitter link