A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

narrative Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.2 17.5 3.2 29.8 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences4133 2 3 0 0 3
Number of authors19 13 2 2 2

Occurrences of narrative in Corpus

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Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
but what's the narrative?' on page 61

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Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
tructions o Scottish prose an narrative vyce. At the stert of the bui on page 84

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
twa grievin paurents maks the narrative aw the mair muivin. on page 5

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
b-sheeds belangin the ower-aw narrative. on page 10
Usin 'Narrative present tense' on page 24

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
s makin them akin tae Lawland narrative ballads. She pynts oot that f on page 62

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
own (at laest in its straucht narrative mode), an i the hinneren, rea on page 135
beggar. The neist pert o the narrative kythes frae his intress in th on page 138
h o a mair mukkil storie. The narrative speikars ir brither an sister on page 139
hor gangs straucht on wi mair narrative vairse. The Wife of Crowle is on page 141

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
. Seward, wha haed a gift for narrative crack. Still, cumin frae his
s no, the ane wi the simplest narrative. A hielanman cawed Duncan gan
2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t ti English – includin the narrative an expository pairts o prose
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
o Gaelic influence promotes a narrative o temporarily hidden or subme
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
gent gaits. Features like the narrative present tense hae jist aboot
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ricate, liberate, literature, narrative, particular, relevant and sup
e, location, modern, narrate, narrative, occur, registration, remit,
tricate, liquidate, location, narrative, occult, occur and the adject
iquidate, local, locality and narrative.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
A Poetic Narrative of 'Lochinvar'
k o 92 poems, cried, A Poetic Narrative of 'Lochinvar' wi batter illu
W Berry maks guid yuiss o the narrative style wi poems the likes o La
r. The ootcome bein, A Poetic Narrative by 'Lochinvar' bi C W Berry,(
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
dialogue kists eikin tae the narrative. The key word at ilka pairt o
an in chapter 9, Dr Lanyon's Narrative, whaur Lanyon descrives wutne
2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
feat o writin fair convincin narrative in twa sindrie dialects o Sco
1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
this point, Gus’s rambling narrative took a natural pause as we fi
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
t tae the election, the media narrative an Labour’s message o this
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@fairpechtoot tweeted
oo obvious tae dae a wee dual narrative?(2018) search twitter

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
rking Colin's lyrics inta the narrative an his music is sae fu i' emo(2016) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
Scottish Labour tae grasp the narrative on independence - until then? (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
s o 21st century intertextual narrative, an sheu says somtheen like t on page 116

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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
in Scotland moved fae English narrative wi Scots dialogue tae Scots n
wi Scots dialogue tae Scots narrative wi Scots dialogue owre a hund
2 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
roportionate place wi' in the narrative o' each facility in onie futu on page 9
n' proportionate place in the narrative o' each facility an' in onie on page 53

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Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
the mair simple, "twa tribes" narrative o British identity forenenst
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