Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ruler	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.1	2.6	3	0	0	0	13.3
Number of occurrences	10	5	2	0	0	0	3
Number of authors	8	4	2				2

Occurrences of ruler 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

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ither boy in the face wi his ruler. Retaliation wis swift an a r on page 43

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Chris picked Laura's ruler up aff her desk an startet ki on page 169

2 matches

Lehane, Matt Red an Black, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
“archon” is greek for ruler
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
y tae be the neist Protestant ruler.
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
chulehoose tackit ontilt. The ruler o this sma empire wis Miss Mc
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d measured Jessie's feet wi a ruler. “Size four,” he muttered
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
dah; fer oot o you wull cum a ruler that wull herd ma fowk Israel on page 2
tell ye thïs, he'll mak hïm ruler ower aa he haes. But ïf tha on page 92

2 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
JProgressive Dinnae thole ony ruler wha disnae abide by the contr (2015) twitter link