A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

friends Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words24 27.8 13.6 9.9 46.5 31 8.9
Number of occurrences7754 9 1 8 3 2
Number of authors42 25 7 1 4 3 2

Occurrences of friends in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ity and all that, just ask my friends, they call me a social on page 12

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
thieves then. You think your friends in the Young Toi were relucta on page 54
own line of enquiry, so your friends will be having a similar chat on page 55

2 matches

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
fierce, naw friends naw foes on page 87

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
ay pretend that we pairtit as friends, on page 32

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Fife's Looking-Glass Rock. Friends: for our after-kin on page 63

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"I don't know how you can be friends with him. He's a stain on soc on page 69

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
n a Convention o the Scottish Friends o the People held in Embra ag on page 58

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
as friends, let's no firgit an on page 11

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ide and a great number of his friends an admirers on the ither, Dav on page 87
e door was unblockit. Davie's friends presst forrit. There wis nae on page 89
prung up in Dundee, cried The Friends of Liberty, which wis like th on page 121
ch king had been executed the Friends of Liberty an ithers still wa on page 122

8 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aura an her've been dead good friends since primary but noo they ha on page 147
ears' time wid remember yi on Friends Reunitet an send yi a Christm on page 148
ftet her favourite cup wi the Friends logo that awready had a tea b on page 169

4 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
h'm prood tae say ma Dumfries friends on page 93

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
. Haein tae go tae aw ma auld friends hames and luring them tae the
1 matches

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
er. Ah havnae seen maist o ma friends in months, maybe even years.
hing like spend a night wi ma friends withoot having that constant
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
And you'll stay friends!
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
We aw' considered yi' friends.
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n how persistent Beatrice’s friends - your friends - are in try
- your friends - are in trying to see you f
he’s stayed to eat with her friends,” she sayed. “She didn’
n you’d never meet your new friends. What about a certain caveman
The Old People did say their friends would come and take them home
5 matches

Pennie, Len Toast Tae The Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
For friends we made alang the wat, and ke
1 matches

Robertson, Gary A Wee Dundee Xmas Poem, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
ason. It’s rooted in femly, friends an haein a bra time enjoyin y
1 matches

Havery, Hannah The Gaithering, (Literature Alliance Scotland 2022) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
in company – amongst friends.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
his knees. ‘’We’re all friends, here. I’ll pay the full mo
ntion back on me ‘’Are we friends now?’’
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ancing doesnae work. Out with friends the other weekend, fine till (2020) search twitter
really feel for all my decent friends doon there. ??(2020) search twitter

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
Sayers33 I dream o dancing wi friends and strangers! I cannae wait.(2020) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
competent Inglis speaker. My friends from Zurich are NEVER asked t (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
Ok Alba friends. I cannae make conference do (2022) twitter link

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
art from one of our Bermudian friends asking me if Nessie was real! (2022) twitter link
e bloody cooncil juice wi yer friends ya fandan! (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
need tae start growing fur ma friends tae eat... bamboo and... lols (2022) twitter link

@annieones tweeted
narkshire i say wean, bit huv friends further north who say bairns (2021) twitter link
says) before visiting yer new friends, who'll huv the kettle oan (m (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rights here - av alot o good friends in midlothian n beyond - am (2020) twitter link
FA_Official @AmmyFitbaNews ma friends fae the caley whit kin a say (2020) twitter link
anytime - b oan and enjoy my friends (2020) twitter link
@RyanMusselburgh our friends down south aways provide top (2020) twitter link
2 day will do for me - good friends and banter at all 3 - o happ (2020) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ppens: ye can ask folk te bi 'friends' wi ye an syne ye can either on page 54
e ye can try jookin it their 'friends' list an see if ere's onybody on page 55

2 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
need telling. We've all lost friends in this bloody war. I know yo on page 17

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
y secret weapon Fisherman’s Friends. A half dizzen o them in yer
1 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
made life long pals! Visiting friends shortly tae get ma fix - awe(2019) search twitter

@daleser23 tweeted
Rachel in friends anoo. O aye like(2014) search twitter
Mona in friends wid get it(2014) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
athin ma luvly so we've magic friends instead :-D x(2011) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
decent few wee drams wee yer friends n family! Hope tae see you so(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
to try to put one over on our friends and neighbours by pretending
1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
o and make a list with all ur friends in it, so u can see what ur f (2017) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
@peediepuss I visited my old friends near Ronas Hill. Being free f(2020) search twitter
tae hae a visit fae wir #rspb friends dis week @mike__clarke @Stuar(2014) search twitter
feast for my peerie feathered friends. Nothing like being up to the(2013) search twitter
I'm blyde to see old friends flyin oer my garden again. ht(2020) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
Göd Yule E’en, friends! Hope you enjoyed this penult(2019) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
missed it. Blyde dus got good friends aboot de x (2019) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
We must be friends, you called my name on page 24

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
, Yüen Chën: You alane o ma friends hae unnerstuid ma reflective
1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
an faimlie, wur guid friends. Weel A mynd-on Peg’s muthe
1 matches

Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
tae believe they are gone my friends a loss to both me and you.
1 matches

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
Friends in Scotland - do you call th(2020) search twitter

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