Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'abyss'

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Use in varieties of Scots

abyss	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	5
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of abyss 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.

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
pierced his lugs. Da freezin abyss below him numbed his legs. Hi
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
On the abyss of the five senses, where a f
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
will guide us tories thru the abyss - tae the promised land ! (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
aight intae the depths ae the abyss . Yit ah retained enough stren
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
e he wis hurlin doun intae an abyss an I coudna haud him back... on page 84

1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 58 - twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
A peer intae th'abyss. Undeemous dree. Sains are aa on page 95

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
looking so far back into the abyss of time.” Hutton an Playfai
1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 63 - Stravaigin The Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ceans ablo us. At ‘Into the Abyss ’ (www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aby
’ (www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss ) ye can read the logs o a wan
2 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
ountry plunges deeper into an Abyss? (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
stin for saumon in the meonic abyss an delytin wi its comedy: on page 5

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
swaitest notes abuin the lang abyss on page 77

1 matches