A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

biggan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 0 39.7 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 0 4 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of biggan 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
he mune sclims high abuin ilk biggan, on page 37
No a biggan nor tithe, on page 47

2 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
ggin the yaise o Scots in the biggan as a hale. ?? An aw instituti(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
They started biggan a small hoose high up oan the on page 9

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
otun afore them the Lights is biggan a face. Thir isno anither wir on page 120
an sweep the floar. Eynar is biggan a bar i'the corner. On stage, on page 127

3 matches

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