A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bards Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 5.7 1.5 0 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences1511 1 0 0 2 1
Number of authors10 6 1 2 1

Occurrences of bards in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
air scrievin, nae makars, nae bards, nae taill tellaris. on page 10
hornis waur aye brimmin ower. Bards aplentie sang o auldtime fech on page 14

5 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
'Cuddies and bards, their flesh sall fade, But w on page 5

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Scots poets an screivers, bards faur kent, on page 141

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Ah doot ye hae heerd bards bummin an blawin on page 22
That tha bummin an blawin o bards isnae true: on page 23

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 58 - Gairm review, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ae fremmit leids, screivins o bards an shenachies lang-kent in th on page 126

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ssor Aitken's essay is intae "Bards and Makars" (University of Gl
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
A heeze o bards in Doric follaed: Charles Mur
1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
and's twintie score negleckit bards. on page 145

1 matches

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Ulster

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
We've bards an a' frae Erin's land that e
1 matches

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