A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ch Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words22.5 12.9 16.6 0 46.5 289.4 0
Number of occurrences7225 11 0 8 28 0
Number of authors15 8 3 3 2

Occurrences of ch in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
o loch tae tell us that the 'ch' soond wants tae come fae the on page 17
h takkin tent an-aw that the 'ch' letters in parteeclar words on page 18
ds wi f, s, sh, n, n, r, l an ch. on page 23

3 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Dann ein Fischer-Zwiegespräch am Ufer, on page 10

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
t Purves gies us vairsiouns o Ch'u Chuang, Tu Fu, Yuan on page 9

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
e the richt soond o wirds wi "ch" (this an aa is explained lat
cots: hou div ye ken whether "ch" should be soondit like in "l
for tae sample wirds wi the "ch" an "gh" digraphs intae them.
ndin clear, an "ie" whan the "ch" efter it is tae be soondit l
he like should be written wi "ch". This gies us a simple spell
6 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
words like sklent, an the ‘ch’ soonds in loch, trauchle,
it’s necessar ti mak the ‘ch’ soond obvious, e’en tho
servative dialects, an the ‘ch’ soond no uised ava bi youn
ynds (like the tynin o the ‘ch’ soond; the ‘oo’ soond
4 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
this naggin wee p-pain in ma ch...
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
The fricative ‘ch’ soond is anither kenable f
(Tak tent that, whaur the ‘ch’ soond in SSE is limitit ta
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
The fricative soond ‘-ch’, aye present in Modern Sco
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
hare the kenable fricative “ch” soond that lowps tae mind
x (the phonetic symbol fur “ch”) soond in their inventory.
rence in the quality o the “ch” soond dependin on the sort
speikers tae pronoonce the “ch” soond that kythes in coont
h whae hasnae maistert the “ch” soond tae yaise either the
5 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Also chree with the guttural ch soond.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Château de Chenonceau on page 17
s is the case wi maist French châteaus, the gairdens are jist on page 18

9 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
The meenister's text wis John ch 1 verse 5:
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
pit yer feet up loons, waat’ch ‘e drammin’ o’wer Hogmanay(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Micah 6:1-8 CH on page 75
1 Corinthians 13 CH on page 165

2 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
diep chöns on page 16

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Ida chænchin hievins, on page 27

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
. Forby dat, shui haes nae ‘ch’ soond in wirds laek dicht,
yit dis wirds is written wi a CH i dem, even toh shui duisna s
’, an wirds laek fecht wi a CH whidder we say da ‘ch’ so
whidder we say da ‘ch’ soond or no, aabody ey agr
4 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Frae the Chinese o Ch'u Chuang (Early 8th Century) on page 36

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
e Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chü-I (772-846)
Po Chü-I wes born in Shansi provin
decessors, Li Po an Tu Fu, Po Chü-I is regairdit as ane o the
l his lyfe-lang freind, Yüen Chën: You alane o ma friends ha
4 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
12. Hamecummin: Ho Ch’e Chang (659-744)
15. Kintrie Houss: Ch’u Ch’uang I (Early 8th Century)
23. Eftir Denner: Po Chü-i (772-846)
Daith o his Guidwyfe: Mei Yao Ch’en (1002-1060)
34. Keikin Gless: Li Ch’ing Chao (1082-1144)
19 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
pray fur sumeane would be oor ch(2020) search twitter

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