A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

expressions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8 7.6 1.5 9.9 40.7 0 8.9
Number of occurrences2615 1 1 7 0 2
Number of authors19 13 1 1 2 2

Occurrences of expressions in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
an rich vocabulary-ainsults, expressions ae scepticism, etec.-an in th on page vii

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
open. Forty year auld an his expressions are a wean''s. Daylight's no on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ht awey fae the boay's facial expressions that he is aboot tae piss in on page 42
h attention. Wae oor dead pan expressions it seemed maire like a mugsho on page 188

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n tae the barrel wi squeamish expressions. Ane o the men haudin the fir on page 98

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
re poke can be! A wheen o the expressions micht hae been auld Scots saw on page 7

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
stauns as ane o the earliest expressions o lesbian luve in oor history on page 4

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
as cultural expressions an as weys o accessin Scotlan
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ot individual Scots words and expressions sine die, as they say in the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay they whit ah’m ah like? expressions, rollin ma eyes.
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
™ wi humsel.’ These are the expressions adults use bit ah wis twelve
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
an expressions
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
cues. Bit maistly the facial expressions an body langage o the Auld Pe
cues. Bit maistly the facial expressions an body langage o the Auld Pe
2 matches

wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
ect wi its byordinar wirds an expressions. Scrievit Scots continuit in
1 matches

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
Ken those expressions Crack on and Absolutely I am (2020) search twitter

Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
or the atom". Loved the awld expressions.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
p aboot da history o Shaetlan expressions on page 102
c "false freends" ir wirds or expressions at look on page 105
dey ir is different wirds an expressions ithin twa different languages on page 107

4 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
c "false freends" ir wirds or expressions at look or soond seemlar or j
dey ir is different wirds an expressions athin twa diffrent languages

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
? I'm grinnin thinkin o your expressions ?? Well done Jan, Pete and he(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
as two particularly beautiful expressions for twilight: “gloamin” and(2020) search twitter

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@4monkeysmedia And the old expressions “tea meetin” and “bun worr(2020) search twitter