Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wooden'

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Use in varieties of Scots

wooden	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	10.9	35	15
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.2	4	3
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	21.7	4	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	18.7	14	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	49.9	4	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 wooden 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 Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
stable and we sit on the big wooden kist, painted with the words, on page 30

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
me bairns diggan in e sand wi wooden spades, then a row o lodgin h on page 20

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
ir wi the meenister up in his wooden poupit, yakkin on aboot the P
1 matches

General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
oan the oot. Passin through a wooden vestibule area, they cam inta on page 76

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
ere is nothing wrong with the wooden fence, good bye.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
the street i see nithing but wooden boards(2016)
ck 10 mins later wee yon auld wooden back scratcher thats been i(2020)

(South) East Central

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ray. Ah keeked up, bygane th' wooden flair 'n' decided.
lock. Ah turned aroond on mah wooden kip causing an abnormal amoun
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
my bad auld days ??. If its wooden, there a nightmare. Expand an(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Scotlandteam wooden spoon in the 6 nations at thi (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
m kits an hittin thern-wi the wooden bits ae the brushes on page 117

1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
es ( the glass anes n the wee wooden mannies). We started a wee jo
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ooths fur the horses. It's aw wooden-built inside n there's steps on page 4
A hate those cunts. There's a wooden plank lyin on the deck. It's on page 28
ealight candles burnin on the wooden fittings ae the back wall. Th on page 32
h, faded tartan carpets, dark wooden furnishings n coloured glass on page 38

4 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Ah'm sittin oan the manky wooden Pair, lookin up desperately a on page 14
intae ma bedroom and grab ma wooden rosary beads, hauldin oantae on page 30
bookmark. It falls oantae the wooden table. Dante's eyes widen. on page 40

3 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
te me and Donald gettin hur a wooden doll's hoose fur Christmas. on page xv
n wi tinted brown windaes and wooden shutters. By the time we arri on page 3
ht, skippin our way along the wooden planks while Granny followed, on page 31
il they sat down in one o its wooden carriages. She said she hud a on page 32
vin room uninvited. There's a wooden table in the corner o the roo on page 35
Also on pages 38, 82, 112
10 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
er blade then oot comes a big wooden hammer which is aised tae thu

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Hard wooden flairs throughout yer rooms on page 22
Below thon wooden chair on page 28
in sheds or wooden kists on page 45
Unearthed a wooden box on page 57

4 matches