A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

headed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.6 9.6 14.4 9.9 52.3 0 8.8
Number of occurrences3918 9 1 9 0 2
Number of authors25 11 8 1 3 2

Occurrences of headed in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
bed a Stanley blade before ah headed oot and burst the baw. Yince on page 40
e point when ah goat haime ah headed straight tae ma room fur a li on page 197
did and then the three ae us headed tae the local park. But befor on page 198

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
lly took it. Easy as that. We headed back through the graveyaird. on page 76
im look like Clark Gable ~ an headed oot. He hadna gone far when h on page 91

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Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2017 ISBN: 978-1785300592) Central - Glasgow, weans
lead oan ma friend." An they headed aff. on page 17

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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
onsored by Hands Up for Trad, headed by Simon Thoumire and hosted
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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
field towards the cliffs and headed fir the light. And that wis u
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McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
whom he seemed tae ken. They headed up an’ west, an’ tae ma s
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Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
at, Gus drained his glass and headed for the pub door. “Are ye c
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Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
sions). A feartie na mair, he headed back tae his native wids tae
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Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e this door again, ye’ll be headed the same waiy as yer Da.’ h
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
headed characters, we could find out
headed characters, we could find out
ng around are making me light-headed.”
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Ah headed doon here wae ma bass guitar,
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Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Jock headed fur a bevvy
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Facebook link ( 2016) Central
When he left Kypewatter he headed for Sorn in Ayrshire an lodge

Doric

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
fae a toun caad Pavia, so we headed for that only tae discover th on page 28

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Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
deep breath o cauld air an he headed deeper in amun the moss.
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Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
I headed down tae ma dides then tae th
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Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
led my tourie oor ma heid and headed af doon ma usual road. The wa
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Martin, Keiron Ma Worst Nicht Oot, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ma tourie ower ma lugs. Then headed oot the door.
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Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
I headed doon the stair, walked along
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Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
jist shrugged my shooders and headed back tae my landy. I threw th
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Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
her wye past aa the hooses an headed up the Montcoffer road toward
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@Manuforti1968 tweeted
the nicht. Nae bad, bit flat headed like. https://t.co/YPm16lNj0W(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
thers think that. He wis dark headed like his dad but took the blu on page 21

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
As dey headed alang da rodd, dey wir awaar on page 127

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Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
yarn, got da mell an saat, an headed back tae his boat. On da wye
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Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ie’s birthday no far aff, I headed in ower tae Commercial Street
tamach. I wis black fantin. I headed alang da street bypassin a si
I glippit my bacon roll as I headed up Mounthooly Street an ontae
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Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
da man wi da petrol turned an headed for da crood o fokk.
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Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Dere’s nae reindeer dere. I headed for Lapland, near da Finnish-
As we headed alang da lobby I admired da h
So we headed ootside tae a muckle byre an
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Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
And the wee cattle wagon headed out at a quarter tae eight ye
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@Angelinekking tweeted
:) I hae a wean wi an iPhone headed for the loo too! :)(2020) search twitter

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