Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grid	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	2.6	1.5	9.9	0	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	8	5	1	1	0	0	1
Number of authors	6	3	1	1			1

Occurrences of grid in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s hing tae power the national grid. Jist gee me a reason, please on page 199

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
it a place name, post code or grid reference for tae see the cai on page 65

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
group had tae cross a cattle grid. A stopped the group an’ br
ight, at right angles tar the grid. The first boys tae cross wer
top an’ wait jist efter the grid. They insteed buggered aff, a
3 matches

Doric

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Behint the grid o railins, within the waas, on page 111

1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ear, Grory, Gravity, Gumpick, Grid on page 11

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e criss-cross the sticks in a grid ower the wakenin flames, tae on page 10

1 matches