Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'cushions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

cushions	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central	46.4	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 cushions 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.

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Tak forrit his cheer, gie the cushions a dunt An the lino ahin't a b on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
black an skytie wi hairy reed cushions aat matched the funcy firesid on page 64

1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
were lyin aboot on the palace cushions drappin grapes intae the sail on page 41

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
oam's aw pure comin ootae the cushions an hauf the chairs've got nae on page 29

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
rs, the fowk wis a’ oan red cushions oan the flair. Bit up the end
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
unded in piles ae embroidered cushions and thick winter furs, watchi
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
n his regular battles wae the cushions wis legendary tae aw who witn
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a big fuckin juicy weed that cushions its arse n breaks its faw. A on page 15

1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e pit ma birdie pentins ontae cushions sin I juist mindit aboot whan
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
nes An, the dugs hae eaten my cushions an duvets an there's feathers(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
rham Well, pit a couple o big cushions oan the flair in anticipation(2020)