A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mainner Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.5 21.3 4.8 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences4540 3 0 2 0 0
Number of authors13 9 3 1

Occurrences of mainner 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

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
od, 'quiz the Almichty in the mainner o a Glesca defence lawyer!' on page 49

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
HUFFALAMP (in a snystie mainner): "Ho-ho!' on page 43
hie,' said Pooh in a thochtie mainner, when he had heard aw this, ' on page 62
ons,' said Hoolet in a helpfu mainner. Soon it wis by wi. Wee Grump on page 134

3 matches

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
Heir ither avantages. The mainner o endyte gies fuither studian on page 11
Heir a reconstructioun o the mainner at he gaed about hiz wrytin m on page 12
fur it expremes the owthar's mainner o wrytin, figuratif an roun-a on page 13

5 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
hair wark in sicna creiticall mainner. Bot ye didna speik afoir the on page 43
sicna reing on the stane in a mainner at jyned the airms o the cors on page 44
melled thegither in the samen mainner at the fowk wes k'nit inti th on page 47

4 matches

Briggs, Susi Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Aggie can mend aw mainner o hings. on page 4

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Wi a grand mainner on page 98

2 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
forenent the wa. Syne, in the mainner o her profession,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
d the machine in a gey sonsie mainner, "and try again."
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
gain nor sinnin. The Swiftian mainner o the tellin, an the deidpan
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
mainner ti wirk stane an sklate. Als
pleisand mainner an als furmed a wie fank at w
aw intil potterneishin an the mainner at the reivers
wi a fauss smirk an a foutie mainner. He lat
t Napier wesna tabulet i thon mainner afoir,”
14 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
tae repone in Scots. In this mainner we ettle tae force the Scots
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ent that. The w.o. thocht her mainner wis faur ower fameeliar.
iddle-aged Uighur wi a pawkie mainner. He greetit Guzul in Uighur,
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ssion, a want o air, a want o mainner, a want o smeddum, a want o v
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
or Anglicise a sentence in a mainner awmaist sleekitly subtle, fli
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
ates, in a radical yet cannie mainner, the ideals o male-centric fr
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
“the German”. In siblike mainner, Gaelic refers tae itsel in a
1 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ld on in a dour an hecklesome mainner, "'It's unco gentie o ye tae on page 35

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - A Wird i Yer Lug, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ither makar, vrutten in sic a mainner as tae mak clair the wye o sa
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
rdressers, garages, banks, as mainner o shoppies an gey aften,
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
lood), da mainner o actions, processes or staet on page 77

2 matches

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