Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

duds	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.7	6.7	0	0	0	10.3	4.4
Number of occurrences	15	13	0	0	0	1	1
Number of authors	12	10				1	1

Occurrences of duds in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
lack shame tae be seen oot in duds as clattie. Yet in this quart on page 134

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
maun mak shair wir country's duds on page 61
ntin fir ocht an aye comfy in duds, on page 73

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
? He wis in some den, face an duds aa bleckened wi a thrang o yo on page 74

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
raith in skelbs, our sails in duds, on page 50

1 matches

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
wi thir coortlie duds an thir airs on page 135

1 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
is aye happit in flashy-dashy duds like naebdy else's. Aboon the on page 56

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Pride comes buskit i the duds o Shame. on page 79

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
abus. He didnae like his smaa duds o lesson plans that he had sc on page 37

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
in wellies an glaury auld duds.
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
heidit sooth in their ragged duds. Me an a lad cried Ginger wal
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
en aw down to poverty, pains, duds, an debility. Poor things, po
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Than they stuffit it wi auld duds. Hsien wis annoyed wi hissel.
1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Auld duds is better nor nae claes ava.
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
©"Naebodie patches thair oul duds wia bit o new claith, fer tha on page 9

1 matches