A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lengths Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 6.7 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1413 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of lengths in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
cuttin braid strips frae some lengths o seck-claith that he'd broch on page 53

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
race well and hus goat a few lengths oan the even money hot shot. on page 42

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
at the seven foot mark daein lengths an divin fur rubber hoola hoo on page 12
ty, thirty, fifty an a hunner lengths. After we come oot the water, on page 14
lene had done a hunner bliddy lengths. Up in the spectator bit sumd on page 15
emed tae be on different wave lengths these days an we had been fur on page 169

4 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
syne that we war blin tae sic lengths o time.
1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
at the seven foot mark daein lengths an divin fur rubber hoola hoo
ty, thirty, fifty an a hunner lengths. After we come oot the water,
lene had done a hunner bliddy lengths. Up in the spectator bit sumd
3 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ak the latinate style tae the lengths at some Inglis writers did. T
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
o flesh cuid traivel sic lang lengths. But mibby, jist mibby, theâ€
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
the back. They'll gan to ANY lengths tae preserve the union. (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thurs only a couple o lengths atween thum noo is they pass on page 87

1 matches

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