A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stained Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.9 11.3 12.1 0 5.8 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences3522 8 0 1 1 3
Number of authors23 13 6 1 1 2

Occurrences of stained in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Stained wi Tears on page 66

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
here's a guy in a curry sauce stained Celtic tap, an nuhin else, wi on page 8
Nicotine stained walls. The windaes are that m on page 22

3 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
warldly gear were their bluid-stained Bibles, some trampled in the on page 53

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
iss, but girned muckle; teeth stained wi nicotine; the hale face a on page 76

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
verloaded wae dishes, bunkers stained wae coffee, and what the fuck on page 118

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
s the Royals weave, And smoke-stained glory, on page 44

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
rted pourin black tea intae a stained an chipped cup. "Ye want ane? on page 23

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ah say, gesturin, tae ma tea-stained tartan nightdress. 'Ah just w on page 45
and ah'd looked at the blood-stained toilet paper resentfully befo on page 53

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
atterned cloot, aa humphed an stained. on page 112

3 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 73 - Wrack, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
o bawdie sang. Stained glass an font wi spit. on page 77

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
altar, keekin up at Ye in the stained gless windae. I canna help bu
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
he boggin, hair covered, pish-stained carpet taewards the door.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ll emulsion above. Impressive stained gless windaes meet ye at the
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
My sweetheart, Beth's face stained wi' tears,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ingin it tae the filthy, pish-stained cairpet lettin it come fur us
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
the sofa. Ma pants still cum-stained and starting to harden a wee
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
plattered across the nicotine stained wahs, probably. Or junkies ly
1 matches

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
he ceiling. The waa paper wis stained broon, the effects o ma Da's on page 42

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ter sinlicht slantit throwe a stained glaiss winda, lichtin up the on page 74

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ackwyes onte the sticky, beer-stained fleer, groanin as skailed pea on page 16

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
Stained-gless windaes. on page 43

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
back, an abeen thon, a muckle stained glaiss windae wi an angel on'
sun poored through the great stained windae, her faither's namesak
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
her. Dichtin Jessie’s tear stained een and sortin her hair, she
1 matches

TheChielMeister Philomena and Alcohol, (youtube.com 2010) Doric, poetry
And cairpets stained wi wine
1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
o think o ways tae reuse V’s stained school polos - suncream stai (2019) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The carpet stained and gie threadbare on page 14

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ndin sun. Hughie's cheeks wur stained wi the ice-cream that had dre on page 44
k tae the oul kelp hut wi its stained green waal an chimley-stak vo on page 50

2 matches

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
ake a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window" as Raymond Chan on page 33

1 matches

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