A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ragged Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 5.8 4.8 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences1811 3 0 4 0 0
Number of authors13 7 3 3

Occurrences of ragged in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
bliners - James Joyce an The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - on page 10

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Wraiths in ragged legions oot the corner o yer on page 23

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Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
, wi the wind blawin ower the ragged heather, the collapsed brochs
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Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ts lads heidit sooth in their ragged duds. Me an a lad cried Ginge
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ossession, runnin thum fuckin ragged but we wur caught oot an put
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Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ae her index finger had worn ragged. A flush ae pain caused Ailsa
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
his haun up, he gazed at the ragged hole punched through the cent
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Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
t behin the vicious black and ragged slate o the storm clouds abov
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
liners – James Joyce an The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists –
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Letford, William This Is It, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central - Stirling, poetry
Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
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@g_hibby tweeted
Dinnae let the lassies run ye ragged mind... ??... (But I know ye (2022) twitter link

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - Oor Grun, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
e peaty reek o the earth, the ragged rhythm o his bleed as he cant on page 88

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an their awkwardness in their ragged claes on page 33

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Fittit ragged.
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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
wid you call them noo? Ragged vanded lad, this een, on page 21

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Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
etir, garbed in naethin but a ragged cloth. Hits skin wis a greyis
head wis baald, except fir a ragged broon beard, rough as a bird'
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
White ragged robin on da croft ?? https://(2019) search twitter

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