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Shetland Norn
a 632,082 word corpus across 335 datasets

The 335 Norn datasets are constructed around all occurences of each of the following 335 words

air, all, allure, angry, animal, arm, around, awake, bad, bake, bank, barley, bay, beach, beast, bed, begin, belly, belong, bend, bird, birth, blow, boat, body, bog, bottom, boy, bread, breath, breeze, bright, build, burn, butter, button, cake, call, catch, cause, chicken, child, clean, cliff, clothes, cloud, cloven, coal(fish), coast, cod, cold, corn, could, cow, crab, crash, creature, crow, crowd, crown, current, cut, dale, damp, dance, dash, day, dead, dew, dirt, dishevel, dog, dough, drift, drink, drizzle, dry, dyke, eagle, east, eat, eddy, eel, egg, end, ewe-yowe, eye, face, fall, fasten, fat, feel, fence, festival, find, finger, fish, fishermen, fishing, flag, flesh, flock, flood, floor, fly, food, foot, Foula, frost, fry, full, gale, girl, gone, good, grain, grass, gravel, grind, ground, grow, gull, gust, hair, hand, hard, hardly, harvest, hay, head, health, hear, heart, hearth, heather, hen, here, herring, hide, hill, hole, home, hoof, hook, hop, hope, horizon, horse, hot, house, hungry, husband, insect, island, jaw, jelly, jump, kirk, kiss, knee, knit, lake, lamb, land, laugh, left, leg, length, line, lip, liv*, living, loch, long, look, love, luck, maggot, magic, man, mass, material, measure, meat, milk, mill, mist, moon, moss, mould, mouse, mouth, mud, musty, neck, need, new, night, north, nothing, oar, oat, ocean, old, over, pain, part, particle, partition, patch, path, peat, person-people, pig, place, plant, play, plump, pole, poor, pray, put, rain, ram, ridge, right, rise, road, roast-soup, rock, root, rough, round, row, run, rustle, sea, seal, seat, see, seed, shag, shallow, sheep, shell, shore, short, should, shoulder, sick, sigh-t, sight, sit, skin, sleep, sleet, slug, smell, smoke, sneak, snow, soft, somebody, song, sore, south, speak, spin, spit, spot, spotted, spring, star, start, step, stomach, stone, stop, storm, story, stream, strong, summer, sun, surface, swallow, swamp, swarm, tale, tall, taste, teeth, thin, thing, think-thought, throat, tide, time, tongue, top, touch, tree, troll, up, valley, vermin, voe, walk, wall, wan, want, wash, wave, weak, weather, well, west, wet, when, whistle, whole, wife, wind, winter, wish, witch, without, woman, wood, wool, work, worm, would, year, young

The Old Statistical Accounts
a 485,683 word corpus across 136 datasets

The 136 OSA datasets are constructed around all occurences of each of the following 136 words

aberdeen, acre, animal, bank, birth, body, boy, bridge, build, by, cattle, child, church-kirk, civil, class, collect, college-university, common, corn, country, cow, crop, crown-queen-king, day, death, distance-length, duke, during, east, edinburgh, england, establish, export, farm, fell, females-males, fish, for, girl, glasgow, good, grain, great, grow, harbour-bay, he, health, her, herd-flock-ewe-ram-lamb, heritors, hill, his, horses, house-home, idle, import, importance, industry, inform, it, labour, lady, land, law-legal, learn, less, london, lord, lower, man-men, manure, meal, mile, milk-butter, mode, money, month, moral, north, number, oat, of, old, or, parish, pasture, peat, people, person, philosophy, place, poor, potatoes, pounds, price, produc, professor, profit, property, rent, river, school, scotland, sea, season, she, sheep, shetland, sir, soul, south, student, summer, tax, teach, tenant, their, them, they, time, to, trade, turnip, use, virtue, wall-fence, weather, week, west, wet, winter, woman-women, wool, work, year, young

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