A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

leisure Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 6.4 6.4 19.9 5.8 0 26.5
Number of occurrences2512 4 2 1 0 6
Number of authors19 9 3 1 1 5

Occurrences of leisure in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
fir leisure or labour, on page 7

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Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ens the meanin o happiness or leisure efter he is a year auld. Nae on page 6

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
gentlemen wi their leddies at leisure tae dander, on page 43

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Scott, Hamish Eemis Stane 1 - Fields o Stanes, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
ame, at thair wark an i their leisure. The first o the faimlie ti q on page 21

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
shilpit pools whaur lauchter, leisure, labour can be heard. The loc on page 51
d days they kent the sea, fir leisure or labour, fae skytin stanes on page 69

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Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
For Eve an Adam's leisure oors, on page 62

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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
e delivery o public services, leisure, social, an commercial amenit
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
But me - A hunt at leisure
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Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
aw goat the uniform ay casual leisure troosers an polo shirts oan,
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Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
p an hearsay wen idle. Av mer leisure time noo, yae see. Business i
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
hes the richt tae saucht and leisure, includin wyce stents on wark
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Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
his back tae earn his day o' leisure? on page 108

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Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
Fan ye get yer new Access to Leisure card, it's for the boolin, it
remind me aboot my Access tae Leisure card. I widna care, but it wi
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
wis keepit bi the Cooncil fur Leisure Centres, parklans far youngli
1 matches

Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
words and phrases tae deu wae leisure - games, sports, music- maak
So off wae go, wae - leisure

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
and then on entertainment and leisure activities. But the Yarlhoods on page 35

1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
A liefe oo leisure, tattle, grievin. on page 29

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
pleasure/ leisure purpones. Gien at thaire ir m on page 65

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Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An mine ye at thair leisure. on page 27
A constant soorce o leisure. on page 53

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Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
te an’ danner’t on at his leisure up the trak’,
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@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
my wife could get her jag at leisure centre! thank you?????? https (2021) twitter link

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