A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of child in Corpus

Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n. The followin year, a furst child wis born tae Jennet an John f on page 27

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Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
a surviving girl child, I wished I could be on page 51

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
A child of the shamrock Lost among th on page 55

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ty an that's only if we got a child an an adult day ticket. on page 54
oan in this class that's pure child abuse am pure phonin Child Li on page 83
t tae go tae uni tae become a child psychologist when she left sc on page 126

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
I wis thare, child, and their child and aw on page 118

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
next sixteen years cause the child maintenance folk were chasin on page 89

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
r in spare the rod, spoil the child, she raised a haun before lob on page 9
p me goin. She wis the golden child, and ah wis a lassie too much on page 10
their right mind calls their child Stella Marie? When David come on page 13
e ma Tesco said ah wis a star child who'd came intae this world f on page 89

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Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
"A child may break an arm or leg!" on page 20

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ae the whisky-wheesht bairns, child hoors an stervin day-labourer on page 9

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Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
tae the keetchen maid, an the child - ten years auld, wis she? E on page 8

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
a lass? She'd o fun hersel wi child, cut aff at the first pass. A on page 43

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
he had proponit tae dae with 'Child Maurice', the ballant he had on page 69

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
elligence agencies leuks like child protection services’.
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child’ as weel as ‘ye birring p
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
urns an the muckle sangs (the Child ballads).
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Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - Napoleon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
‘Child of a fierce hour’, you wir
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
the snot collected at a dirty child’s nose.’ Jamieson support
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Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
'Only a male child can be the successor to the l
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Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
art me. Ah wis quite a sma’ child e’en at twelve – ah pit a
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Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
lookt through the peephole, a child stood there lookin awfa peely
imsell, “Whit the hell is a child daein oot at wan o’clock in
hat rank smell. (Back tae the child) It had black emotionless, gl
ercin eyes; it felt as if the child wis starin richt through Jim.
starin richt through Jim. The child also wis dressed in a pair ae
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Eunson, Catherine Freude, (The Scores 2020) Central, poetry
There wis naethin Child Ballad aboot oor tragedy.
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
-coast o Scotland wird fur ‘child’ is ‘wean’: at hert, a
coast, the Scots wird fur ‘child’ is ‘bairn’ – anither
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@annieones tweeted
@ColRobertson18 @MizLiot As a child,ma da usd tae tell me tae spe (2021) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
tae hear aboot 'Gifting Every child': https://t.co/1T5XEdVk8H @Sc (2017) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
y Made sellin stuff look like child's play Inside a cattle float on page 15

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"At's child abuse is at." Joyce turnt owe on page 43
aist likely describe er es a 'child of trauma'. Bit fitivver ye w on page 65

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ried te myn: he'd bin an only child bit yet he hidna kent that ab on page 91

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Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
her big body. “The wretched child’s wet himself. Is there any
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Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
in him o the death o his only child at Bermuda. He’d contracted
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
to wanted her toys back as a child. I’ve added it to the databa(2018) search twitter

@beast_afc tweeted
ashford @scottm1901 Fit aboot child obesity? If onythin, I hid ta(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
If a child makes a mistake in Frisian in
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Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
eats, a mammoth task as every child expects something sweet in th
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Southern

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
LITTLE CHILD on page 37

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McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Thair childér's wames whan tha blicht cu on page 2

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@fairfaaye tweeted
" (a cold day) "a wee yin" (a child), "an aul yin but a guid yin"(2020) search twitter