A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

forebears Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 6.2 4.5 19.9 29.1 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences2412 3 2 5 1 1
Number of authors14 5 2 2 3 1 1

Occurrences of forebears in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
shaws me the forebears. on page 71

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 85 - Roads, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
Thon photie o yer forebears, stuid forenent the croft; on page 10

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Dreaming he muses his forebears stood here, on page 15
Oor ancient forebears lit their fires atop the heic on page 40
That sang oor auncient forebears hairts aince stirred; on page 86

3 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
eid refleck the history their forebears leevit throu an aa. There are on page 62

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ng afore recordit history oor forebears biggit stane circles an ither
arks it is weel seen that oor forebears haed a notion o lang time tha
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
kinna things aboot kail. Oor forebears ate herring an haddock frae t
e waur nor conseeder whit oor forebears ate an try a puckle o thair t
2 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Dreamin he muses, his forebears stuid here,
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ars, it is weel seen that oor forebears whiles seen cheils in the lif
1 matches

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
ear, my richts as heritor, my forebears, kin on page 10

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
o North Gellan, seed bed o ma forebears, an parked the car. A heich, on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
though they'd keepit aa their forebears' harns an clivveralitie.
1 matches

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An the failings o his forebears tae. on page 127

1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
on-work related activity. Wur forebears worked herd and I doot efter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
truth dey even hae different forebears: Shaetlan comes fae Norn an S on page 12

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
as du comes face-ta-face wi forebears. Fae on page 84
da wirld, i da slip-stream o forebears. on page 85

2 matches

Williamson, Christie Shaetlan an compoonds a da richt, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, blog
back on the “Ah, but all my forebears and those of the surrounding
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Thule Revisited, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
He'd shaw dem names der forebears hed gien
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ther, “Thar’s ae lot o ma forebears lyin in thar, an thay ir lyin
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Tha recaird o Jesus's forebears on page 74

1 matches

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