A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

byleid Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.5 0 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences119 0 0 0 2 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of byleid in Corpus

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Central

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
English is. Ilka leid - ilka byleid - hes its ain savour an feel on page vii

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
liking for. In the Soothland byleid o Scots Venus is kent as Cous
(cryed Stane-is in the Orkney byleid) biggit aboot 3,100 year Afor
2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
trophes that merks Scots as a byleid o Inglish, but the feck o tha
r o an eediom functionin as a byleid. The term “byleid” is an
. The term “byleid” is an orra ane for Scots,
e it’s Inglish that’s the byleid – the bittie eikit on for d
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
eel aquent wi that parteeclar byleid.
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
owreset gin ye bide whaur the byleid's yaised. Fir thon whae bide (2020) search twitter
it here pal, aiblins oot the byleid noo. Gey braw wird but, time (2020) twitter link