Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rumours'

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Use in varieties of Scots

rumours	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.5	24	15
ORK - Orkney	59.6	6	3
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
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 rumours 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

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
e funeral wisna ower till the rumours started. I'd been seen about on page 21

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Me time will be cumman fur rumours persist. on page 27

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Me time will be cumman fur rumours persist on page 153

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
I'd heard the rumours, Jeannie on page 131

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ssed in Muggle claes, swappan rumours .’
tie-faces are notheen tae the rumours that are flyan aboot. You ken
2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
mes, otherwise God knows what rumours will be flying round!" on page 21
some big sooth firm. Dey wir rumours aboot redundancy 6 bit naebod on page 40

2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@RTG_Podcast Fit rumours for goodness sake? (2022) twitter link
@AbzPodcast Fit rumours? (2022) twitter link
n full back that never plays, rumours this was a Cormack signing na (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
b wae shock. Ah mean yae hear rumours, ken? Hearsay that someboady on page 49

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
but a did heer sum interestin rumours why you didnae appear - nudg (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
RUMOURS on page 131

1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
son27 Im hearing increasing rumours that AS isnt actually being (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
eonic Wars there were regular rumours o a French invasion. In 1801 on page 25
French. It seems in fact that rumours o a couple o Frenchmen spyin on page 26
eligious times there were aye rumours aboot the immoral behaviour o on page 118

3 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
super like on me. Thur's been rumours aboot me floatin aboot since on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Rumours spreid aboot the closes, on page 35

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
hame, an the palace wis fou o rumours o hoo he’d murdered a man �
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
Hearin rumours the ISP cofounder wisna a fou(2020)
Hearin rumours the nutters of the ISP noo su(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
. It gave folk ideas, stertit rumours gaun roon. And it wasnae the on page 78

1 matches