A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

phrases Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words21.2 11.3 39.2 39.7 81.4 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences6822 26 4 14 1 1
Number of authors23 15 2 1 3 1 1

Occurrences of phrases in Corpus

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Central

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
words an phrases ahint her gentilitie. Ma Scot on page viii

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
er. They hae a wheen o words, phrases an syntax in common an are af on page 7

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
maist likely tae ken foreign phrases and fantoosh wirds. "Somethin on page 65
"He kens aw thae Latin legal phrases." on page 79

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
e. This shaws up in ferr-kent phrases sik as the ane conteint in Ch on page 136

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
be gien a guid leukin tae an phrases the likes o "gonnae no dae th
1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
At phrases sic as oors they scoff,
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
John. He’s pickin up a few phrases noo but they
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
, English an African words an phrases in it, as well as a hypnotic
for preservin African words, phrases, traditions an folklore. In t
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
is "based on local vernacular phrases and dialect by celebrating it
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
, an 'a tad' as easy as Scots phrases the likes o 'what-d'you cry h
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Wi' phrases bold, no' limp an' tame,
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
notin doon phrases
the phrases,
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e shouts, inspirin a few mare phrases tae the same affect fae the p
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
defend his kintra. Ither sic phrases as “whaur’s yer Roman dec
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
Phrases like, 'A'm screivin tae speir
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
nglish ‘ago’, in temporal phrases. An exemple sentence micht be
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
ee somethin manky. Hunners ae phrases lit that uise impact tae inte (2020) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
adin the wey in sharin #Scots phrases oan Friday, 4th June. How no (2021) twitter link
t, or an English speaker, the phrases 'Here it's', 'There it's', 'H (2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
We love Stew at Doric Phrases, especially on a cold March d(2014) search twitter
Doric Phrases featured in the Press and Jou(2014) search twitter
will be will be - now at 843 Phrases(2014) search twitter
"Pey the factor" to the Doric Phrases A-Z: can you guess what bodil(2014) search twitter
We’ve nae Doric words or phrases beginning wi X in our A-Z – (2014) search twitter
and 19 other occurrences.

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
elebrates the jewels o words, phrases and connection wi the land th (2020) twitter link
many other traveller words an phrases like stal yer mangin (be quie (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
ur seen a lok o new words and phrases. Thank you aal fur yir contin

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
ther up some Orkney words and phrases tae deu wae leisure - games,

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
ention a whole haep of words, phrases and anecdotes. Thank you ivry
fully, fok will mind words or phrases associated wae hid and add wh

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
bilangs tagidder wi it. Noun phrases can be maed up o as little as on page 46
up da core o a sentence. Verb phrases can be maed up o as little as on page 69
epositions kinda conneks noun phrases wi idder structures idda sent on page 78
up phrases or sentences (conjunctions): on page 80
wi predicates (verbs or verb phrases) at demaands on page 83
Also on pages 84
10 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
i da literature report we git phrases laek "standardised system of
trategy." I dunna kaen if dis phrases cam fae Alex or fae his sourc
t,’ even if hit consistit o phrases laek ‘I seen all dem fock w
3 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
already gittin very important phrases https://t.co/UUqRZgKZ8Y (2020) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Well said James. The phrases 'militant idiocy' and 'Ranger(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
ere in my favourite childhood phrases along with "Honest God's Trut(2019) search twitter