A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boards Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 7.4 1.6 39.7 5.8 32.8 4.4
Number of occurrences2414 1 4 1 3 1
Number of authors19 10 1 4 1 2 1

Occurrences of boards in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
frames, which ir like notice boards, aw penned n tippexed like fu on page 24

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
wi boards o breid and tattie scones, on page 129

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
itted a widden lip so the cut boards would sit back doon smooth as on page 1

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
t large. They hae pals on the boards o the airms companies that gr on page 54
ave the forces tae sit on the boards o yon corporations, tae help on page 121

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
room. He paintet her skirtin boards an her ceilin anaw, an he mad on page 169

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Boards the 'Sterlingshire' at the Br on page 19

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Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
widd" he whispered. "'Widden boards!' on page 39

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ittin up on the schuil notice boards. Aw the ither entrants will b
1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Boards the ‘Sterlingshire’ at th
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
issel tae paintin the skirtin boards, syne the waas.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
airds tae be uised bi tourist boards or ither agencies o the like.
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
hat can be accessed via Smart-Boards or doun-loadit tae gie tae th
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
cks him intay the advertising boards.
1 matches

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
reet i see nithing but wooden boards(2016) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
uk a wark fae the Ting's duty-boards. on page 143

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
intae skirteen boards on page 9

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
in oan me wae home an pit wur boards an dabbers oan wur lucky teeb on page 86

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
widden hoose, hids awid black boards on page 47

1 matches

Shetland

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
da splintery boards, lik fingers saftly wirkin
1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
amang local cooncils, tourist boards an cartographers, ti anglicis
en steps bi parochial tourist boards ti anglicise the richt names
2 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
throwe thair inpit on sindry Boards, Comatees and
1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ae it sorted: wheek a wheen o boards on the wundaes. http://t.co/g (2015) twitter link