A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

rhyming Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 1.5 3 0 5.8 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences103 2 0 1 1 3
Number of authors10 3 2 1 1 3

Occurrences of rhyming 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

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Rhyming Brian McCleery: You'll know t on page 55

1 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Is thet rhyming slang? on page 98

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
erset it intae maistly modern rhyming Scots for this contemporary v
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ard When you're reduced tae a rhyming card What a diatribe! on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ha'en a lauch wi his Cockney rhyming slang!(2017) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Could really do wi a Shetland rhyming dictionary (2019) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ae idea. Sounds like Scottish rhyming slang for Heinz Baked. Haw ma(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Noo the moral o this rhyming story, on page 58

1 matches

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
ike Thomson, Porter, Orr, the Rhyming weavers all They spoke in Sco
1 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
man too! #tumips #halloween #rhyming #tradtion Happy Halloween eve(2019) search twitter

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