A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

abandoned Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 10.8 3 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2621 2 3 0 0 0
Number of authors18 16 1 1

Occurrences of abandoned in Corpus

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Central

Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Simmer Strand, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
returns tae wrack wuid abandoned in the saun. on page 42

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the minds ae the youth ae the abandoned workin classes. Some ae ma ma on page 90

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
jobby that some clat bag had abandoned, that wis noo bobbin up in do on page 98

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Tae lead through this auld abandoned doorway; on page 21

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
We'll niver leave ye abandoned tae the past, on page 31
Like an abandoned stage, haurd, forgotten on page 53

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ma appetite when Stella Marie abandoned me. It didnae help losin hur on page 74
he family know Stella Marie's abandoned me?' on page 80
Marie up by tellin folk she's abandoned me in ma auld age. God knows on page 111

4 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
didnae quite wark oot an wes abandoned efter a few decades. In the 1 on page 11

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Tae lead through this auld abandoned doorway:
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
He wis left, abandoned at the door ay the pineapple
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
an’ only got as far as the abandoned Government guns. A never came
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
r independence they’ve a’ abandoned ship an’ cam ower here? But
1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
but probably getherin dust in abandoned or forgotten glory holes, the
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“China abandoned a Han Chinese population here
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ns explodin. Gin Labour hadna abandoned socialism, they micht no be h
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
These braw stane biggins are abandoned, an will smool slaw back inta
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ce. They felt sae helpless an abandoned by the authorities. It's disg(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Brian_Pacey game abandoned at half time then they kin po (2020) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
I can see past ma land to the abandoned fields at the bottom o Mormon
ands have ay shifted, burying abandoned toons ablow it. If folk arna
2 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
above a rookle o abandoned bikes, on page 5

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
film stills, pens abandoned - twaard an alien on page 26
ed a mosst ancient set-up: an abandoned alien on page 30

2 matches

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