A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

eighteen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 12.3 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2624 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors13 11 1 1

Occurrences of eighteen in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
turnt eighteen. Wee Jack the page, fair smer on page 80

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
least wanae them looks aboot eighteen or suhin, a right elder wan. on page 18
eldest there. It's fae aboot eighteen, nineteen doonwards, finally on page 21
fourteen n fifteen, right tae eighteen n nineteen. Big Kenzie n Eck on page 25

4 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
an undeemous beast, nearlins eighteen hauns hie, and as strang as o on page 6

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ne he kin be much aulder than eighteen. Remindin me ae yin ae they w on page 168

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nda McCoy an she's only aboot eighteen or nineteen but she's got a f on page 61
Chapter Eighteen on page 97
in John's a right rogue, he's eighteen an he disnae work an aw he di on page 126
Changin Public Health in the Eighteen Thirties tae the Nineteen Thi on page 169

6 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Lassies that arenae eighteen yet," Klaus said, flickin tae on page 100

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
mistake o gettin pregnant at eighteen like hur. Ah cannae believe t on page 12
f she hudnae fell pregnant at eighteen, she'd be in medical school o on page 34

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Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
Changin Public Health In the Eighteen Thirties Tae the Nineteen Thi
ked aboot wis Hygiene, an the Eighteen Sixty-six Sanitary Act. It wi
2 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
tae scan at random atween the eighteen cameras that cover aa the cen
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e the jaw, rapid, fae the two eighteen stone lap dugs McNulty hud br
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
The second victim, an eighteen year old called Harry Reid, w
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ip, modern or otherwise. Come eighteen ah wis stuck in college daein
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
ink a wis talkin’ aboot the eighteen hundreds, Charles Dickens and
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I aboot extra inches? I weigh eighteen stone, mibbe more, on page 31

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
And so in eighteen twenty nine on page 41

1 matches

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