Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bronze	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	9.1	8.2	9	0	5.8	31	13.3
Number of occurrences	29	16	6	0	1	3	3
Number of authors	21	12	4		1	2	2

Occurrences of bronze in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
y said. She held oot this big bronze medal wi a yella ribbon that on page 15

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The lustre o its bronze hus lang syne tyned, on page 86
angs tae win a man that plain bronze cross on page 88
uck gowd when ah wis left wae bronze. on page 128

3 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
s mannie set in a pirraitch o bronze. on page 98

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Jura, an a blether aboot the Bronze Age (2,400-700 AC), takkin in on page 110

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ortyaird is locatit a 13-fuit bronze kinetic sculptur bi Arnaldo P on page 120

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Chrysanths, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
outower aa else, the bronze.
1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
y said. She held oot this big bronze medal wi a yella ribbon that
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
s figurines sprayed lik solid bronze… folk, richtly, wunner exac
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
n at her loom, she pit on her bronze helmet an her breistplate tha
chant ships – wis thrang wi bronze-nebbit warships insteid.
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
the handsellin o the £40,000 bronze statue o Sir Jimmy Shand, scu
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ned the door. Droopy eyes and bronze fur heaped on the flair, like
1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
pped the angel frae its base. Bronze wings provin useless, it topp
1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - Thof nae a rigmarie hae I, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
I’ll blink on siccan bronze as think him pious yet aye he
1 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
tside the varsity biggin is a bronze globe statue caad the 'Sphere on page 7
he 1920s, 30s an 40s. The 212 bronze an granite sculpturs that liv on page 16

2 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An then we'd see jist foo bronze I'd be on page 110

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tae Quarrytowers itsel an the bronze-tinted lift-pod that wheeched
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
ris T's looking red, Stacey's bronze, Chris M's pink. Jimmy Carr's(2011) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
da Shelties nae laetter as da Bronze Age aboot 2000BCE. on page 101

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Frae Powderhall, and cast in bronze on page 51

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
ell haes a rare skelp o thae. Bronze an wrutten script kythed in t on page 5

2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
luir an cast leaves o goul an bronze licht ontae the dairk carpet. on page 47
teuched the face that appeart bronze in the mornin licht. He had t on page 54

2 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Frae tha days o Bronze on page 51

1 matches