A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

awhile Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 5.7 3 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences1511 2 0 0 2 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of awhile 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

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
His exile he'll suspend awhile If it's aa richt wiher, on page 9

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
it's grand tae stey awhile and blether.' on page 7

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
tae dream awhile, on page 61

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
aboot. ? Be the packwolf for awhile it might make ye smile ??(2020) search twitter
dy thought about this one fer awhile ? it was good though.(2020) search twitter
ierd but we passed that stage awhile ago.(2020) search twitter
s bud no heard that one fer a awhile ??(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
big man bit a fear it cood b awhile lol (2021) twitter link
eFC @Fauldhouseutd1 its taken awhile - but good luck to the hoose (2021) twitter link
- the 3g at pinkie was done awhile a go too - probably the same (2020) twitter link
no seen a raker like that fir awhile lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r an hame. Here, she dauchled awhile, tae catch her braith, fur he
ister's heid an daunced there awhile ahin her sleepin ee till the
2 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
But stand awhile on Pirndean on page 47
Says I "come up awhile and stay on page 22

2 matches

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