A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

candy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 9.3 15.1 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences3018 10 1 0 1 0
Number of authors19 12 5 1 1

Occurrences of candy in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
rguin an scoffin ice cream an candy floss on page 28

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
intae his bag, 'ye cin get a candy apple urr a bag ae whelks. Mu on page 1

3 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
C is for the candy trimmed around the Christmas on page 40

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
THE ROCK-CANDY MINE - 10,000 FIT DEEP, it s on page 136

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
candy-stick ane frae Hanzel an Gret on page 20

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
n front o me. His drink hus a candy-cane straw in it. on page 11
tuffin hur falserfree face wi candy floss. Mum and Dad took the r on page 31
smelled o warm doughnuts and candy floss. Men in flat caps wur s on page 32

3 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
Coulter's Candy on page 24

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
did ye ken whaur Coutar o the candy bade an whan he died; did ye on page 129

1 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Bak Tae Schuil, (Scots Hoose 2015) Central, weans
tuffin thir face wi Christmas candy!
1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
rds are reived frae them like candy frae a babe's haun as they gr
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
Lik sucker candy? Na, he’s faur ower sauty.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
n baws, toffee doddles, cough candy, coulters candy, moffat toffe
, coulters candy, moffat toffees, sherbet dabs
2 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
t tae, we aye sang 'Coulter's Candy' and 'Clap-a Clap-a handies'.(2018) search twitter

Doric

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
a bobbin birlin up es cotton-candy on page 82
Minerals crystalise crack-candy scabs, on page 83

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
coonter war the sweeties: coo candy, double lollies, sherbet dib- on page 87

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A candy floss later an then on page 111

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
's junkie-lan, her current ee-candy an squeeze.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
kfast. As he sookit a moufu o candy, his lugs wummled
ye strippit baas, an coo’s candy, an caramels an chocolates aa
2 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
e chowie toffee wiz caad "Coo candy" because o the coo on e Heila(2020) search twitter
ie toffee wiz fyles cried Coo candy.(2020) search twitter
StevieG1978 Fit aboot Coulter Candy?(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The bairns aal waanted candy - on page 8

1 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
ys visited the new Coulter’s Candy sculptures in Gala earlier, a(2019) search twitter