A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ancestral Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 6.4 1.6 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences1412 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of ancestral in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
o the muildert, ancestral auld pile we cry 'home. on page 77

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
This scene's ancestral, ever. Lowping each stone, on page 63

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ah'll admit that the auld ancestral seat on page 141

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
His mither’s ancestral vyce assuret him that he wis
4 Ancestral vyces
s spickin fack or reportin an ancestral vyce. She smilet. Bill Hender
Henderson, the techie, wi an ancestral vyce.
Dizzens o ancestral vyces. Bill as he existit in
9 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Birth an Daith tuik the auld ancestral mools. Naethin wis christened
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
e an Mabonslaw. Harden is the ancestral
1 matches

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