A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

burned Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.6 4.5 22.5 49.7 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences319 15 5 0 0 2
Number of authors15 8 4 2 1

Occurrences of burned in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
smoort the smeddum that burned in yer soul. on page 21

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
d wi a fryin pan would o been burned intae hur mind. on page 51
gravy in between pieces o the burned photograph oan the hob. Hur l on page 82

2 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
Y wis for Yule Log, that got burned at Christmas. Z wis for Zebra on page 120

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
O Mesha's banes burned an crushed tae lime, on page 112

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
its o something that had been burned up. It smelled o nothing at a
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
tled it, the widden bits were burned and metal sections were melte
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
as a minority o Na activists burned the saltire, bullied the defe
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
went tae the Mercat Cross an burned the lot.

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
s o hundreds o hames that hiv burned. on page 20

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Haar in the mornin is seen burned awa,
Girse in the countryside burned broon,
enjoy this burned offerin". Noo tae mak metters
3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
in their bedroom is burned black." Ere wis a loud explos
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
titlan, telling foo yon cheil burned hissel alive, cheengin inno t
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Destiny’ an fitivver cannel burned oot first that wiz the answer
midnicht as the middle cannel burned oot, the ither twa still hid
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ooked as though they’d been burned. She’d shown yin tae the ma
e back o the hoose were fower burned bodies. Seemingly they’d be
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
i the beech cloggies for they burned like a canle.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
roon the steens. As the aspen burned she said the names o the Lair
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
opened books on them. A lamp burned abeen them. She’d niver see
rs on them that the cook said burned a special ile fae sperm whale
ial ile fae sperm whales that burned wi a white licht instead o th
3 matches

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
and thir rage burned across aal o Orkney. on page 25

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
revenge, in his hert, slowly burned. on page 16
His faith and hope burned bright and clear and he faced on page 77
I burned wi curiosity and oot-and-oot on page 80

3 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the plaece they burned witches. on page 138

1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Ain burned theim tae tha bane on page 38
Obsession finally burned tae bricht, on page 46

2 matches

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