Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'quarry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

quarry	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	20.6	66	16
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	2
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	140.6	43	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	83	7	1
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	4
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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 quarry 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
s cousin, - he wirked in the quarry aal day. on page 16

1 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
Don't go doon tae the quarry be night on page 89

2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
n leanin ipo dir shovels i da quarry hol oot da rodd, an comin ham on page 73

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
dat time o year again when da quarry maalie fledglins need a peeri(2018)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
The muckle gapin mou o the quarry wis vrocht like a quaich wi a
it doon ae side. It hid bin a quarry since the echteenth century,
leburgh hid bin taen frae yon quarry 's intimmers – granite that
skiffins o green lichtit the quarry waas wi buddin saplins an spr
an sprootin girse – for the quarry hid lain quaet fur thirty yea
43 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
n ye for een that workit in a quarry, though. Nae wi saft lookin h on page 43
y roonaboot here works in the quarry?' on page 45

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
cam hame fae his work at the quarry . Ah nivver really took tae hi
1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
t the banner up ower Rubislaw Quarry ?’
streetched oot ower Rubislaw Quarry an had tied the Charities Wik
islaw wis the deepest granite quarry in Europe, an there wis a fiv
3 matches

General Northern

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
rebuilt wi Tam's Forest Quarry stane, on page 18

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
plastic dumped in a quarry in Pitsliga. It came aff o yo
gaun tae Lovies quarry for a puckle mair chuckies. O
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@KAZ1903 Freedom o Rubislaw quarry(2020)

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
d floor tae bake cakes an Mrs Quarry insisted that we kin ainlie h
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n. Mornin Sunshine chased the quarry - an antlert deer stertit up
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
tae play wi ma pals doon the quarry fur at least a week. on page 40

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
t Easter he wis drount in the quarry. In thae days we got a ha'pen on page 54

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
agoons. He caught sicht o his quarry aboot 4 o’clock in the aift

@Chazzbat tweeted
ik up", an shair eneuch, thur quarry is up in the rafters. It's so(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
Compared wi the supreme quarry on page 5

1 matches