Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

valentine	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	10.6	11.3	10.6	39.7	0	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	34	22	7	4	0	0	1
Number of authors	12	5	4	2			1

Occurrences of valentine in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
It's Valentine's Day, an the postman has bee on page 109
t ma da wis tryin tae leave a Valentine on the counter fur ma ma with on page 110
tae buy a dozen red roses fur Valentine's Day but he said he'd need t on page 111
n fae ma ma an da fur huvin a Valentine when ah got in fae school an on page 114

9 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ther's Fluffy Toys" bi Rachel Valentine P6C, again o Campie Primary S
1 matches

Wilde, Jacqueline Jay Valentine Tango, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Valentine Tango
Ye bought me last Valentine’s.
2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
hiv decidit tae play Cupid on Valentine’s day in fower o their ootl
Greggs favorits, but wi a wee Valentine twist! Fir exaimple, this is
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ic side tae it kinna like St. Valentine's day sae the freebie paper u
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
It wis Rachel Valentine (P7c) that won the Scots Tung
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ner o the competition, Rachel Valentine P7C, wi the Scots Tung Quaich
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
B) wad be 1st Equal an Rachel Valentine (P6C) wad be Rinner Up.
Rachel Valentine P6C Rinner Up
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
It's Valentine's Day themorra! Compare Carol (2018) twitter link
en whit a 'poor-oot' is? This Valentine's Day, research traditional S (2018) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Will ye still be sendin me a valentine, on page 135

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
he needna bother sendin him a Valentine neist ear.’
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Happy Valentine Day a'bidy, here's ma sweethe(2016) search twitter
bonnie City an Shire - Happy Valentines Day abidy! xx https://t.co(2017) search twitter
Hiv a great Saint Valentine nicht wi the ae ye lo'e an if(2018) search twitter
Happy Valentines Day fowks, ah wish ye muck(2019) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
h tae fit! I forgot aboot yon Valentines as last time I gave Jessie(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me Valentine on page 9
's the light o me life and me Valentine. on page 38

3 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Group Love Poem for Valentine's Day on page 123

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@Lagganeer Japers! It's no Valentine's tae the morra! Tak a keek t (2015) twitter link