Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

african	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.2	9.8	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	20	19	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	14	13	1

Occurrences of african 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

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
African name, and it's no as hard tae on page 2
at day, ablow that heich, het African sun. on page 32
alk awa hame unner the bealin African sun, she fund Poloko and spie on page 58

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Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ings (no forgettin, mind, the African kings), seeven thoosand geogr on page 58
t gin ever ye traivel tae the African desert. An gin ye come at yon on page 95

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Picked oot three stanes. The African snakestane, protection fae pi on page 1

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
n Akpap Okoyong, the Scots an African workers wad sing Scots sangs on page 11

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Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
An African mannie sits by me. on page 98

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Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
oction. Keith gied us a South African tale aboot Samson, no’ quit
1 matches

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
t wha dreamt it tae the Sooth African granite that hauds it up. At
it cams tae leids, the Sooth African government hiv got eleiven ba
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Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
his hameland Kenya, and ither African kintries, and traivellin gied
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
leid at hame wis maistly West African Pidgin, at Mum, a naitral Bor
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
s Scottish, Irish, English an African words an phrases in it, as we
been a vehicle for preservin African words, phrases, traditions an
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
y onie shelter frae the bakin African sun. There wis virtually nae
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Apartheid in Ohio, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
Aist Heich Scuil wis maist aw African Americans.
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
@PureFitbaw Did some South African ref no do Us ootta something (2019) search twitter

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
times, as e wis a bleck African doctor. Naw. A ken whit ye ja
1 matches