A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grit Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 8 3.2 0 58.1 32.8 0
Number of occurrences3015 2 0 10 3 0
Number of authors15 9 2 3 1

Occurrences of grit in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
d aff the brig an brushed the grit fae the stane aff her claes. on page 1

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
nower, time smoort pages haud grit on page 16

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
nner and ten in ma nichty. Ah grit ma teeth. Ah'm noo a toothles on page 119

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the grit o the city on page 24

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
chein their trainers pad the grit on page 98

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
tendance that the monument of grit antiquitie now fundin be noch
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Grit God,” exclaimt Iskander unn
An wi Beatrice there wis yae grit advantage: nae faimly tae sti
ging wi my granfaither tae a grit ceremony,” she sayed by wey
o introduction. “Quhaar twa grit rivers rins thegither, us gin
tane, some kin o aggregate wi grit intil’t. She sut a bittie a
6 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ribute tae Martyn Bennett’s Grit album cried ‘Nae Regrets’
lbum cried ‘Nae Regrets’. Grit featured Scots sang pit tae m
2 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
A silence sits grit rotting
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e" said Bob As a dirl gart im grit is teeth on page 15

1 matches

Christie, Hilary Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, poetry
Grun doon tae snickerin grit on page 74

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
less! edder da locks wis ower grit or da key wis ower peerie, bu on page 11
wye o settlin onything, be it grit or peerie. "Aff wi da head o on page 86
flaachter at shö wis in, foo grit shö wis grown ida hidmast tw on page 117

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Da grit baests mGv inta da waitin cr on page 62
da screen, dy grit-grit-graand-faider luiks on page 84

4 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
offer, sae Dodie kyerried da grit muckle pan doonstair again an
1 matches

Graham, Laurence Flans Frae Da Haaf, (Shetland For Wirds 2000) Shetland, poetry
Oh Loard abön, hadd Dy grit haand
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
Dey aa med a grit wark o Smootie an cöllied ab
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
grit conversationalists an cuid ta
sum grit tales tae tell an affen spak
grit i thaim days an A haena spoke
3 matches

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