A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

rural Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 8.7 6 49.7 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences2817 4 5 0 0 2
Number of authors22 15 3 2 2

Occurrences of rural in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o oor traivellin fowk, an the rural Gaelic an Scots speakers that on page 66

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Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ir) wis brocht up in Dess, in rural Aiberdeenshire, an vrocht as on page 4

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
whit's nou Tivoli - became a rural retreat frae whilk he explore on page 101

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ts in its modren forms, baith rural an urban, tae mak poetry, nov on page 9

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
han owersettin wark aboot the rural idyll o the 19th century. For
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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
nthusiast that has visitit 66 rural an 39 urban schuils ower her
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
d up in the Lowdens spaekin a rural form o the Central Scots dial
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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
hey hae gotten siller fae the Rural Development Fund an Perth and
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ne o the “non-mobile, older rural males” or NORMS that’s th
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
urvey and the aulder and mair rural the informants wis, the mair
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
undit on the eardly smeddum o rural speak, no the unchancy virr o
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Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
importance o infrastructur in rural areas.
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
s Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy Fergus Ewing isnae im
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Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
e. In this wey, the urban and rural prospects o noble Scotia mich
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hou a minority language wi a rural hertland cuid hae sic a conte
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ers, Edinburgh bankers an the rural sooth, they also managed tae
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
nner the towrists caa this 'a rural Paradise'." on page 15

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@DoricPhrases tweeted
_Mitchell_86 Aye it's a right rural wordie.(2015) search twitter
anks tae Dave for these richt rural ene’s,(2015) search twitter

@glenlivetloon tweeted
e manure we hear from all the rural Tories!(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
, professional class. A lot o rural Orkney is effectively a commu
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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
hard news reports aboot NHS, Rural Payments, renewables developm
watched religiously aal owre rural lowland Scotland – fae Gall
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Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
tird the leid o ony cless or rural prejudice, but hid canno end
d canno end cless conflict or rural depopulaetion, an the standar
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Ulster

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
ok houl. As weel as that, the rural clachans an mairket toons o n
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@the_gellick tweeted
the Airds: aul folk maistly. Rural N. Antrim the ither. (2015) twitter link

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