A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

author Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.5 18.1 7.5 9.9 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences4436 5 1 0 1 1
Number of authors23 16 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of author in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
of language. Donald Campbell, author of The Jesuit (1976) and The on page 44

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Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
SUSAN, THE AUTHOR WI' HER SONS JON AND GAV. THE on page

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Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
nd anthologies, and he is the author o Celebration of the Light, a on page 55

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
kent a writer who shagged an author who goat peyed tae write. But on page 49

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ither publications. He is the author o a puckle books in Scots an on page I

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Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
h for Scottish Identity'. The author's name, tho, is an instant gi on page 84

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
st, follaed efter. He wes the author o sik warks as The Food of th on page 5

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
emmar an Scots vocabular, the author micht write: He said tae me t on page 24
is an adaption o the Canadian author an airtist Heather Spears' no on page 59

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McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Author's Note: on page 112

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
this track o time, the walit author is kinna on page 7

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
The Author's Address to his Auld Dog Hec on page 141
hir, an Hogg feinishes wi The Author's Address to his Auld Dog Hec on page 142

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ictur. He signs aff as the ‘Author of Waverley’.
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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
peaker, poet and scriever, is author Susi Briggs. She has helped m
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
k Lyall. No surprisinlie, the author conduckit fower sessiouns wi
Scott’s writings’, an the author caws his awn studies o poems,
r text as stellt for aye! The author follaes richt thro til the en
s sikkar. In fack, he wes the author o at laest 18 plays, tho thai
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Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
Willie's beuks, an tae their author. In the last twa-three years
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Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
As a Scots author veesitin schules and communit
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
dress tae the conference, the author o the report, Irene McGugan M
taks the pairt o the aw-seein author, preferrin tae come at each s
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
e readin buiks for schuils an author o the kenspeckle "But n Ben A
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
on ae side o A4 paper, wi the author's name, address an contack nu
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Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
lmations. Dodie Smith wis the author. Ah mind it fine. Ah’d jist
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
the featurs o Scots by the ae author, click here.
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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
and goddessis” tae help its author “to end this worthelie”
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
, The Buik o Ruth 1:16–17, author’s ain owersettin fae the 15
Ianthe, that she luves), the author richt oot states her desire t
yous strang candidate fur its author.
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
backgrund and geography. The author luiks forrit tae mair researc
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@LairnScots tweeted
5/9 or this yin, by the same author, aboot teachers yaisin Scots (2019) twitter link

Doric

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
In atween, the author gies us a wheen o characters on page 124

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
In atween, the author gies us a wheen o characters
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Blackhall, Sheena Drumneachie Ferm, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Doric, poetry
Author’s notes:
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ens aboot yer favourite Doric author an Share if u love novels of (2017) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
se, Chairm? A couldna fin the author on the SLC site? If so..affa (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Lallans 67 - Fower Poems efter Rilke, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Orkney, poetry
(wi author's glosses o Orcadian uisage) on page 58

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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
din experience. It brocht the author in touch with the saul o a se on page 34

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Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Hugh Porter's 'Author's Preface' which found shoon (2018) search twitter