A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ancestors Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words16.9 22.6 4.5 9.9 29.1 10.3 0
Number of occurrences5444 3 1 5 1 0
Number of authors15 8 2 1 3 1

Occurrences of ancestors in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ae tak back the thrones o his ancestors till the late 1760s, hae been on page 61
r historie, or een that o yer ancestors? on page 67
somethin that oor far distant ancestors had some sense o, an here, ji on page 87
and aw thae years syne - oor ancestors dinnae appear to hae had onie on page 98
needin tae aye mind that oor ancestors werenae in need o takkin less on page 99

5 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
oor ancestors, the earth and air, on page 54

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
Oor ancestors made dae wi little as mony re
1 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Does Scotland compare weil wi ither places fir wee bairnies?, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
o sae unalike frae the wey ma ancestors did. Twa howdie wifes, the ba
1 matches

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
sett” huntin tactics o wir ancestors. A wheen o hunters wad yowl a
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Ah didna mean for tae get yer ancestors that agitatit.”
Raggle’s ancestors likit Hsien. A lot o the Dug
hiles Raggle’s cynical auld ancestors thocht Kamile wis trailin a h
thrawin weys o pittin things. Ancestors! If ye sayed a thing aften en
thocht ye really did hear yer ancestors. Wha did Raggle think wis bot
33 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
roy @rainie1410 I'm sure your ancestors were involved in the Clearanc (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Dear Boris Johnson, oor ancestors gave the Romans sic a hard ti(2021) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
telt ye stories o langsyne o ancestors an the like, fur he'd a great on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
unce, sae the scaley Septiles ancestors war maisters tee.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
sailors, politicians and his ancestors hid focht in countless wars a
1 matches

Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
e will tae live fae his early ancestors, for he wis aye findin sumin
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
an sheep tae Shetland at's da ancestors o da Shetland breeds o kye an on page 13
orse did an aa - da twa main ancestors o Shaetlan. Dis soond isna fu on page 24

2 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
arlotte Anne took da rodd her ancestors drave
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
orse did an aa - da twa main ancestors o Shætlan. Dis soond isna fu

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
hese days, may have saved wir ancestors lives through hard times lik (2018) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ian! She is dead proud ae oor ancestors ???? skal! https://t.co/jWmMc(2020) search twitter