A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

semple Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.4 11.2 1.6 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences2321 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of semple in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ae the class wi Simple Sammy Semple, an aw he dis is sits an draw on page 16
s gettin totally lost. Simple Semple wis ma partner on the tapes a on page 17
aw the boys apart fae Simple Semple cause they aw - came intae s on page 18
stopher Russell. Here. Samuel Semple. Here. Louise Strachan. Here. on page 47

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Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Aathing fu semple an plain, no cairvin, nor nae on page 43

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Bothies Association mainteens semple bields in back-lyin airts (ww on page 65

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
winna rin richt athoot thaim. Semple weys tae stravaig the wab ano
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Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
ae the class wi Simple Sammy Semple, an aw he dis is sits an draw
s gettin totally lost. Simple Semple wis ma partner on the tapes a
aw the boys apart fae Simple Semple cos they aw came intae school
topher Rice got hold of Sammy Semple’s jotter an he was passin i
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n owerset that’s Inglish is semple tae stairt wi. As it happens,
ot a version o the Bible in a semple but authentic register o Scot
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Mid-Ulster Inglish? Weel, in semple terms, it’s a dialect o Ing
In semple terms, the Scots influence is
tae hae been leemitit by the semple fact that the dialect is Ingl
3 matches

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 76 - Mither tung?, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
gin ye dispute thon semple fack.
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Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
dies, alang wi new anes, in a semple, chordal wey, conform tae the
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ober shuid be nae mair than a semple wee acknowledgement o the aul
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Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
s foremaist cultural bodie is semple. At the hinneren Scots can ni
1 matches

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ethers war that he wis jist a semple gaun-aboot bodie. A hid ma ai on page 99

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Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
rei til fowre hunner yeir, ma semple plea til the Christian Kirk i
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