A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

earned Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 5.1 7.5 19.9 17.4 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2110 5 2 3 0 1
Number of authors19 9 5 1 3 1

Occurrences of earned in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ys. 'Huv a fuckin line. Ye've earned it.' on page 15

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
force feeds the hing his hard-earned drug money. Though yae cannae on page 35

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
By a stookie earned while plaistert, plaistert on page 68

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
et drink. Lookin back, Granny earned hur keep oan that holiday. on page 32

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
keen, an I'm wabbit!... Ye've earned yer corn this mornin - an so on page 17

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ol an wad spend the siller he earned on whisky raither than food f
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
dicks ye kin pick up Yer well earned trophy,which yeez huv won,des(2019) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
in fine, nae bad ava. They've earned their afternoon fine piece. W(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the rose tonight guys - defo earned the right to b there 2 nite - (2021) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
But at least ye've earned the regard on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he said, dolin oot his haird-earned siller an deein his best te i on page 10

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - David, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, poetry
Tae his earned Epiphany. on page 13

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Jessie earned as much as her father in a mo
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
or else wasted a lot of hard earned cash watching this utter ??#s(2016) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ha's antics browt despair and earned him many a smack. on page 15
dresseen goon and hid a weel-earned meal. on page 21

2 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
hansper mair blue melts. Ah'm earned me medal. So I luik up ta nae
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
up ontae da bench for a weel earned blow.
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
us as a key worker I'm likely earned it onywye! https://t.co/Qt4EV(2021) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
88 @LADFLEG In keenks! A weel-earned Gellick Geg award tae Sean... (2015) twitter link