A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

super Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.4 16.4 10.4 0 29.1 10.3 9.7
Number of occurrences4833 7 0 5 1 2
Number of authors27 14 7 3 1 2

Occurrences of super 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

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
He bumbles aff wae his can ae Super bought wae the change. We're on page 40

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Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"How Ah'm a super long-jump champ on page 15

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Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
se fae heich waistit, skinny, super skinny, on page 14

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Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Intellects gie oot the orders Super this... or super that, on page 23

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
'How come ye super liked me?' ah ask him. on page 16

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
is wiy, traumatised. It's lit super powers. Nevvir did I play lik on page 3

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McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Super duty mega-cab Bulkt-up wi bar on page 41

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n that big scary cunt fae the Super Mario video game, only wae a on page 123

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
me stories aboot players lik Super Ally McCoist, an Davy Cooper, on page 66
ht in the centre pages lookin super sexy an wearin a white shirt on page 76
E BEER DISAPPEAR ~WHAT'S YOUR SUPER POWER. on page 169

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
There wis a super-bricht bleeze. on page 146
There wis a super-bricht bleeze. on page 149

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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
There wis an aerosol can o SUPER SAPPLE SHAVIN SOAP belangin h on page 20

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Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Ye'll soon mak Super Bam. on page 17

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Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
n tae Cantsmell’s ma in the super market the day. Ah nearly fai
n. Ever since that day in the super market ah keep seein her an s
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The Scots Government an Super-heroes?
fowk the inlat tae hear thair super-heroes yaisin thair ain langu
ae his lug, "Wad ye like some super sex?"
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Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Uni. “This certifies ye as super brainy.” he said.
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Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
magined masel being a sportin super star. I wanted tae play gowf
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e gittin a hand joab fae some super model hus ma blood runnin cau
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
name of the game - oh what a super cool bridge lol (2020) twitter link
ion cannae multi task cos the super league thingy hus cropped up! (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"It aa looks super, disn't it?" said Joyce. on page 11

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Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An Lower Largo is super on page 123

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@d_anderson878 tweeted
Magic! Super braw! https://t.co/9kv9KC8kyG(2020) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
i'day Bob. Fa's i loon wi yon Super Scurry teeshirt on. Quite fun(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
ter, local fitba stalwart and super Scotland fan. Great work fae (2021) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
AberdeenFC @KevMcnaughton Luv super kev but he's yanin awa like h(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
ds sheep the ither day made a super job(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
is dis confident, untouchable super-bitch. Forbye dat, I didna ka
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@Julie_Dennison tweeted
lockdown highlights, I hed a super day daday (2020) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
a living wage to serving such super meals x(2020) search twitter
OutofDoors @highland_andy How super to get back oot and aboot. I (2020) search twitter
at turned up a few years ago. Super peerie birds. Lovely to watch(2016) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ReidEileen1 No wi ma super-duper allergy alas!(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
up lik Venice "Doges" Their "super-state" tae impose; "Cause her on page 59

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Thompson, Mark Address to a Nintendo DS, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ards, poetry
Lego Star Wars an’ then Super Mario
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