A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

aimed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 7.2 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1514 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors15 14 1

Occurrences of aimed 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.

Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
w his condescendin wee smirks aimed firmly in ma direction, tae. on page 35

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
mare whase rider had a pistol aimed at the heid o Dauvit Hackston on page 37

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Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
yon scaur a leamin flane aimed at ma hert, on page 82

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ed wae pin-point death stares aimed firmly in ma direction. The e on page 31

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
lem makkin jt gang whaur it's aimed at - a wee impediment fer a on page 121

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Is that meant tae be aimed at us, ah said. Jist ignore t on page 69

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Wid no be aimed at lemonade, Nor Alcopops! on page 29

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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ah aimed the spray, an wi ae shot
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Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
unt fae the bouncer which wiz aimed tae wan eh his pals: "Got any
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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
her goat’s cheese piece. He aimed at her a mega-muckle luve arr
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
city tae the tailor squadron, aimed a clout at the captain's neb,
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Facebook link ( 2017) Central
This re-enactment wis aimed at weans tae help them unners

@billykayscot tweeted
to some extent, but the bile aimed at the FM is outrageous. Ever(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
Anither yin aimed at young yins - the Scots in (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
he arrow o the Twatt roadsign aimed at their grinning, empty heid
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