Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

ow	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.2	23	16
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	16.3	5	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	12	9	6
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 ow 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

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
pened.) So shö began ageen: "Ow est ma chatte?" for dat wis d on page 22

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ened.) So she started again: "Ow est ma chatte?", wheech wis e on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“Ow-ow-ow-ow -OOOyah” he skirled, dauncin
1 matches

Shearer, Gillian Skitin Oan Thin Ice, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2019) Doric - Alford, prose
Ow !
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
gart the windae-panes dirl. 'Ow-w-w!' he skraiched. 'Dinnae d on page 26

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
"Ow !" Livvy yelped. Abby swiftly
"Ow ! Wan ae yous help me!" She sc
2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Your words loup lightly ow 'er the Sark,
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ned.) So she stairtit again: "Ow est ma chatte?", which wis th on page 22

1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Ti ride roughshod ow ’r human beings
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'Ow? said Teeger. on page 27
Dunch! 'Ow!' squaiked somethin. on page 39
'Ow! he yelloched as the tree bre on page 67

4 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Frae rug an rive ow'r fremmit peths, sair liths on page 30

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
owis, lawbur(r)owis, laubor(r)ow(i)s, on page 24

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
ur hand’ and ‘As plesis ȝ ow command’ are evocative o po
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
eithjack interested. How much ow where can I purchase. Any Eas(2016)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
rd powny with the sound ow (as in that wis sair) i(2018)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
bilingual Ah jaloose ye'll no ow (2020) twitter link