A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ballast Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of ballast in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Comic books frae Stateside, ballast in the holds on page 23
tobacco lairds wi slaves for ballast on page 45

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
a gas cooker furst yaised is ballast fir Noah’s Ark an a biler,
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
dy wirds, chukkit oot da ballast. on page 19

1 matches

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