A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

urban Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.2 17.5 6.4 9.9 29.1 10.9 0
Number of occurrences4433 4 1 5 1 0
Number of authors25 19 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of urban in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Urban Legends on page 3
eads like a ghost story or an urban legend. Exaggerated as fuck, on page 11

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
s, like masel, came up tellin urban stories, heard in pubs an war on page 66
an hae whit were really jist urban ceilidhs whaur awbody had tae on page 70

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
we thir urban speel fowk started ti listen on page 72

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
n scale in whilk the values o urban glamour an rustic peace-of-mi on page 101

1 matches

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

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ical threip. The fack is that urban life thraws fowk thegither, a on page 9

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
or the ceitie leid an haimelt urban speik, in aw on page 6

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
shockin ad hoc rendeitions o urban slang, likes o Irvine Welsh's on page 56

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
times. It wis the Frainchman Urban Le Verrier that jaloused the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
that taks the form o a modren urban crack makin comment on the la
1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
at has visitit 66 rural an 39 urban schuils ower her last fower y
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
nce atween the landart an the urban or atween the ordinar wirkin-
ts haes its springheid in the urban dialects o the twentiet centu
ng syne baith experimental an urban Scots haes been seen in prent
3 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
enominator for angliceesed ‘urban Scots’ — Derry Ceety aye
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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
g the naitral warld ithin the urban environment6. An no juist in
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
er view and we recognise that urban dialects are richtly dialects
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
The urban eediom that MacMillan fesses
s: altho foundit on a slangy, urban speak, it’s eikit out wi a
k, no the unchancy virr o the urban patter. Baith media are artif
3 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
his leasome. In this wey, the urban and rural prospects o noble S
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
banter in the West o Scotland urban vyces an rhythms that Byrne h
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
. So that probably evolved in urban, or at least agricultural pop
1 matches

Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
s i the Northren Isles an sum urban areas on the aist coast, an t
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
an Sheena Blackhall, Scottish Urban Myths and Ancient Legends (St
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
a strang central belt/Glesgae/urban bias. Fur exemple, whan fowk
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ndwart hertlauns, includin in urban airts, and biggit no least ar
Norway. It is spak in thrang urban centres sic as Embra and Dund
2 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
mony examples o Reykjavík's urban airt. 'The Musician' sculptur on page 11

2 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
concocted by the looney urban elites, on page 20

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
a far cry frae the near-haun urban slums that war still caad the
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
hifted straet awey tae a rich urban Scots whan phonan haem. Mebbe
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
"Well," says Dr Urban Intelligentsia, ane o the for
erial for PhD students," says Urban Intelligentsia.
skailin a puckle bawbees tae Urban Intelligentsia, Effete Litera
3 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
shockin ad hoc rendeitions o urban slang, likes o Irvine Welshâ€
ta record da kind o doon-toon urban demotic at’s in leeterary f
2 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
abour, sic is ain wuid find i urban industrial communities. A thi
1 matches

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