A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

darts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 4.6 27.1 9.9 0 31 0
Number of occurrences319 18 1 0 3 0
Number of authors15 7 5 1 2

Occurrences of darts in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n front ae the telly. Wumen's darts is oan BBC2. Gid hing tae bec on page 119

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aunnae dae, said Chris, Throw darts at yi. Widnae pit it past yee on page 148

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Dante's haun darts up, and there wis me finkin h on page 24

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Davie's delicht, there wis a darts competition just startin an t on page 94

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
ndit up juist pleyin dominos, darts an cribbage in the bar. on page 59

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
iticians, or a monkey throwin darts, or whitever. Maist important
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nst wee jocky w - top drawer darts n 2 great characters on the o (2021) twitter link
hey lol sorry wis watchin the darts (2021) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e wis weemin there sklakin - darts bein flung Aye the next "ting on page 15

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
CORPORAL SALT'S ONLY DARTS PUB BAND on page 127
CORPORAL SALT'S ONLY DARTS PUB BAND (REPRISE) on page 138

12 matches

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
Hear the repeated whack o darts on page 19

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
Feels gd tae feel gd. How wiz darts?(2011) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
disnae go tae my 2nd hame so darts, nips & peace!(2016) search twitter
l i pit yer name doon fer the darts team? ??(2018) search twitter
ocal wee pub, game o’pool or darts wee the locals & a mock chop (2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
inches fae the grund. A stoat darts doon a ditch. A hunder Golden
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
elestic bands tae fyre paper darts it ilk
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
bson10 @lawrence_91 @mousey77 darts at hame the night agains the (2012) search twitter
skins6 @mousey77 @hornet_2011 darts away ti the golf b the morn n(2012) search twitter

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