A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

biggans Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.6 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences65 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of biggans 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
new biggans bi the strand aa gey dear bie on page 30
whaur coupit biggans gie nae kinna bield, whaur we on page 77

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
n gess frae woons o shettirts biggans, on page 64

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
athort the kintra in names o biggans, steedins, mair. The Auld Lai(2020) search twitter