A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of character in Corpus

Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
e tae him: She gied me a guid character, But said I cusdnae soum. on page 44

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
yd, pittin doon hes cheynge o character tae hes R.A.F. trainin. An Ah on page 27

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
hill ... an honest man o fine character that's weel kent by folk in K on page 25
abroad as a godly man o guid character, blessed wi piety an Christia on page 41

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e yae by ma hand. You've goat character, ah like that. There's a loat on page 15
xcited aboot explainin Aldo's character. But when ah hink back now th on page 70
tae huv a connection wae that character Tuco. Ken, the big cunt wae a on page 175
e. Soonds quite an interestin character that Holden Caulfield, ah rem on page 192
gee each person in the room a character assassination. on page 196

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
rstaund ah wis never a strang character like you. Ah wis aye blate an on page 192

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Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ction through the eyes of the character'. Any presentation an analysi on page 84

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ry Nan wis whit ye wuid cry a character. Whan this tale took place sh on page 56
y bonnie an her name gied her character. It wisnae that she wis that on page 57
some, wi his totally fearless character, Davie Gray ower time becam s on page 84
, withoot onie evidence aboot character, by the intensity of the crim on page 103
larly active, an true tae his character they said that this wis the n on page 117

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
corner Eeyore's ma favourite character fae Winnie the Pooh even if h on page 122

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
character in Homer's great odyssey. His on page 101
a raellife incident, but the character hus nae kenspeckle features t on page 123
'Could ye no staun as a character witness fir me, eh?' on page 125

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ects o Scottish experience an character that canna be sae weel expres on page 8

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
e effort o drawin an ugly wee character that's meant tae be me. on page 37

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Tak the cairtoon character Groundskeeper Willie, for ae on page 38

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Yer brother's gaun'ae be some character,' ah say. on page xiv
fell oot. She's always been a character. When we went tae the panto, on page 26
. They wanted tae suss oot ma character. Aboot a week later, ah hud a on page 35
. But if ah'd an inklin o hur character, ah would o gien hur an ugly on page 115
minds up aboot Stella Marie's character. It wis a guid hing Malcolm h on page 117

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Niven, Liz Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
e story as we see the central character, a fairly unsuccessful invest on page 87

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
irs o Scott in Hogg's name an character. At first sicht, this sounds on page 116

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
e us leivin, direck speik, in character, but that's as it soud be. Sh on page 136

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
aud on! Iain Martin, the main character, finnds something gey queer u on page 91

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
agoria’ is a verra streynge character. He is the son o Sir Micklema
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
that technically it's a Scots character's dialeck ithin a English sto
, anarchist, anchor, Bacchic, character, choir, chord, chorus, christ
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Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
shawin this kin o mistak in a character's dialogue then they micht wa
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Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
Scotch Tongue wi the popular character Jeems Kaye, whaur the young a
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Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
caur adverts can be grand wee character screives. The'r ane whaur ye
richt back again. No juist a character sketch, that ane, but a never
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
wi the stereotypical Glasgow character. In fact, the Scottish Daily
lets, called the mickey by ae character, the closes, the dunny and th
man, a shifty or unscrupulous character. Chanty A ken as ‘chamber p
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
t we expeck o a Scots-speakin character. Cyrano’s Scots haes tae ma
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Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
and tae 'stay' as if he wis a character on Coronation Street, beggin
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
o Kelvinside perfect for the character. The Scots o Orgon (Steven Mc
gies a guid exemplar o a character chyngin register when the occ
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
iles he yaises the vice o the character in the poem tae tell his tale
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
™s never been a good judge ay character.’ he looks tae the fuckin d
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
sca vyce gies truith tae each character's perspective o the events. S
o the individual view o each character as it is exposed. This create
an daith helps tae bring each character tae thair ain stage o it. Ric
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
the 'Maister o the Revels', a character that wad hiv led Scots fowk-d
Ilka character threaps his/her ain case as t
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
speaker in the piece wis the character, Mrs McMutton - Mrs McMouton
o the accordion played bi the character Big Jessie (a gey Scottish jo
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Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
rection. Gus continued wi the character assassinations of his wife’
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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
s previous assessment o’ ma character wis carried unanimously!
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
but aabody respectit his guid character and undeemous pouers o wark.
e sae quirkie and thochtie in character. Aa the ither male pigs on th
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ble property, tradeetional in character, bit in guid repair, verra pr
cried wasterners hui, an the character wis based on the radical for
en that. He cud hae written a character, than immediately obscuret it
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Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
. It’s definitely goat some character.’ she sais.
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Facebook link ( 2021) Central
cousin o John Steel, the main character in ma buiks aboot that time.

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
r whae happens tae be ma main character wis attacked at the tap o Lan

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
as sold long ago on your good character, you have a good ? and that's(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
udnae tak ony mair o the lead character's weak behaviour, or the clic(2020) search twitter
g wis ma particular favourite character. Excellent actin.(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
er characters Mr Tod. Anither character is cried Tommy Brock. An exam (2021) twitter link
t of North-East Scots for his character.' Kayleigh Donaldson looks at (2018) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
iMurphy listen wid u gee me a character reference tae c if the higher (2021) twitter link
erdict - one hell of a dodgy character and not to be trusted (2020) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
She gave me a good character, on page 116

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
In obtainin a character reference for Erchie, Meersch
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Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
og fae the Bog is a fictional character an nae dowg wiz hurt in writi
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae lang tae putten inta 140 character fur Twitter!(2014) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
70s. Joe was a real Aiberdeen character, local fitba stalwart and sup (2021) twitter link
Â’s a major flaw in the Scots character - they would become better p (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
Cummings is a sleekit character(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
an entrepreneur, a versatile character with a great deal of business
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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
The anarchic and disreputable character of the Low House must be prot
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Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
chm Thanks Marisa, he's a wee character! I hope you're keeping well a(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
e him mair nor yince. Anither character hails frae an earlier time, b on page 44

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
rts wi' a strang Ulster-Scots character bes relevant yet an can pley on page 50

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