A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ray Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 9.8 7.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2519 5 0 0 0 1
Number of authors19 14 4 1

Occurrences of ray in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
by the first bricht ray of sunshine, tae pierce the m on page 18

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
nsolatioun, the bricht meteor ray that kythes an minds us oan. on page 102

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
a cough, and ah went fur an X-ray o ma lungs. It wis horrendous on page 5

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee: Scots Ch on page 129

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
the screivings o HG Wells an Ray Bradbury. Abuin aw ithers Mai
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Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
il movies we hae sein on Blue-ray DVD
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Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ns athin the sun or fae gamma ray bursts that’s nou bein asso
The ootcome o a gamma ray burst in aboot oor neuk o the
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
aneath the sun's effulgent ray.
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
they need tae dae noo is an X-ray o ma lungs.
llery and stand against the X-ray machine?” the first nurse s
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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
life oot o me: Fat Karen and Ray, Chris and his new bird I can
hen Ali had stayed in toon at Ray’s again, or so he’d said,
r an alien. I ken that's what Ray and Fat Karen, and Chris and
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MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
illuminating under th' moons ray. Ah keeked up, bygane th' woo
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
hat, he’s actually glowin a ray ae fuckin sunshine. He saunte
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@billykayscot tweeted
s melon...an him replyin Naw, Ray Wilkins has already ordered a(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
Why hus Ray got it in fer David? Whit did(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@RayForsyth85 not sure ray but i will check it out - ju (2020) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
I doot ye'll need an x-ray" on page 15

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McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
hae a x-ray o ma chist. Yon machine maun
it the x-ray whin the radioactive man cum
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Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
e hospital a got rushed tae x-ray abd they discovered a hid bro
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ma freen Ray aat Cruden Bay IT Services in(2017) search twitter

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Withoot a ray o' hope in view, on page 37

1 matches

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