A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

we’ve Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 2 11.9 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences144 8 0 1 1 0
Number of authors8 2 4 1 1

Occurrences of we’ve in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@19Mcculley We’ve got them on the Kincardine br(2020) search twitter
@ScotsMLK We’ve aw been there ??(2020) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
hance if yeez stickin up whit We’ve, @ClydeFC huv raised wae yeez(2020) search twitter
no even phunny, that’s whit We’ve goat left ffs! ??????????????(2020) search twitter

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
We’ve nae Doric words or phrases be(2014) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
ie was at the back - fact is we’ve nae alternatives at the momen (2022) twitter link
ed is producing an atmosphere we’ve nae had in a lang time (2022) twitter link
astonishing how few players we’ve had scoring mair than 10 goal (2021) twitter link
es in the line up, as good as we’ve got (2020) twitter link
a completely different set up we’ve adopted. The ba only gets hoo (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ikkin aboot ‘normal stuff’. We’ve hid plenty of Scots in comedy(2020) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
aka th Kingdom, is amazin’. We’ve aye been a supportive bunch, (2020) search twitter

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@rob_pearson86 @DesignInky We’ve got da best sunsets and sunri (2018) twitter link

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
What a bonnie night we’ve had to kick-off the 2019 Comm(2019) search twitter