A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sheughs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.6 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences95 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of sheughs in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
travaigin through cundies and sheughs, a galoot on page 8
days, Sundays, reddin oot the sheughs an cundies, makkin watter cle on page 77

2 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
remember a nerra ferm road wi sheughs on either side. I remember se
rd drakes scurrying intae the sheughs as we drove intae the yaird.
2 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
travaigin through cundies and sheughs, a galoot
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
owd, the hips an hawes in the sheughs war skirps o bluid, an roon t
ter them hairse wi cauld. The sheughs bi the road war rinnin fu o b
sweet wi simmer girse. In the sheughs, the wild fite rose wad be bl
3 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
an beasts crined in bores an sheughs. Flichts o fire jinkit roon a
1 matches

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