Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ranks	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	8.4	9.3	4.5	9.9	0	20.7	13.3
Number of occurrences	27	18	3	1	0	2	3
Number of authors	18	12	2	1		2	1

Occurrences of ranks 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

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
n's Newall Terrace, gaitherin ranks in the auld Aberdour on page 77

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
rocht panic in the Covenantin ranks as the king's airmy moved for on page 39

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
forest paths lined wi ranks o trees, straicht-backed, on page 192

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
affy lot o in-fechtin in the ranks o the Tory Pairty, an their h on page 11
fessariat, an aw their lesser ranks hae aye come fae Westminster. on page 19

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
And torn and bluidy ranks chairged oan headlang, on page 20

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
as cleekit ontae be the upper ranks of the wirking cless no neces on page 9

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
An torn an bluidy ranks chairged oan headlang,
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
aff an’ plough through oor ranks. They had tae aim straight at
ded in their slaughter by oor ranks bein’ compressed by clansme
a son tae swell the Clan’s ranks! When we got tae the meetin�
ame. A wis pushed back in the ranks, by the crush, an’ only got
4 matches

Lehane, Matt Aye an Ay, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
an through the ranks rose like the chosen few
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
echt Auld People tae jyne the ranks o the Wanderers.
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
Righ! Thats Me joined the ranks of the Great Unwashed..??. Wh(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ye say? Naebody o' the lower ranks will hae ony feckin cash than(2021) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e party brother - only broke ranks in 2014 for the indy vote whe (2021) twitter link
eveloping in the eos football ranks ? the amateur football associ (2020) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ice cars, bobbies wi a kind o ranks, sniffer dogs, the lot. You
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
iz passed as A1 and jined the ranks o the Gordon Highlanders. The
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
or seven years service in the ranks o The Honourable East India C
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I joined the ranks o the fightan men, although l on page 63

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
In infamy, it surely ranks on page 28

1 matches

The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
a lot o' young yins in their ranks.
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Ulstermen in his ranks on page 33
An broke ranks like he meant it. on page 34
them wha mairched, in sombre ranks, on page 35

3 matches