A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

inspiration Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.8 14.9 7.5 0 5.8 20.7 17.7
Number of occurrences4129 5 0 1 2 4
Number of authors32 22 5 1 2 2

Occurrences of inspiration 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
Ah look aboot the caravan fur inspiration but nuhin is jumpin oot at me on page 23

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Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
'Its the mead o inspiration fir a makar' on page 14

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ness, that in its tum wis the inspiration fer thon braw film Apocalypse on page 78

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Eh've been searchin fir inspiration on page 38

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
tive gemmes can be a soorce o inspiration, tirivee an intellectual stee on page 54

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McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
o soarin inspiration. on page 18

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
brary fur ye gie ye any extra inspiration?' on page 29

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
But ma biggest inspiration back then wasnae picture star on page 75

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
tive gemmes can be a soorce o inspiration, tirivee an intellectual stee on page 54

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McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
fur inspiration oan the Cooncil Chaumer's on page 112

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
n, glentin upairt, lukkin fir inspiration in the lichtshad abune es hai on page 18

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Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
ma chainge, but syne a grand inspiration faas. A lifts the matches an
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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
ricate wark, these wir aye an inspiration ti me: he showed uis hou ti m
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tal, but cause o its possible inspiration comin frae the dooble life le
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Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
A SPARK O INSPIRATION
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Connelly, Gordon Celebrating Ithers, a letter tae somebody wirth celebratin, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
Inspiration
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Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
Fur inspiration, hae a swatch at these twa op
Fur inspiration, hae a deek at some o the mai
Fur inspiration, mind o the wirds frae Escape
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Fitt, Matthew Matthew Fitt: a word aboot 'bad' language, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
rted, you could look for some inspiration on the creativity page at Sco
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Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
gied her the idea – no, the inspiration – she said. I wisnae quite
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Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
second thing is tae luik for inspiration tae the Dictionars o the Scot
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Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Tae seek the Muse fur inspiration,
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@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ins Dinnae gie up Bob your ma inspiration ??(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
rticle is a fabby one. Yir ma inspiration coach! Here's a wee clue! ?XX(2015) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
tbremner 's Scots sayings fir inspiration: https://t.co/NBVMIKp2uo http (2021) twitter link
s yin fae @stewartbremner fir inspiration: https://t.co/3fMujLhG69 http (2017) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ffed fir big yogi - a feckin inspiration oan the touchline - whit a m (2020) twitter link
VNews @scott_thomsonx what an inspiration mekala is - great news - b (2020) twitter link

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
n picters hopin we'd tak some inspiration fae the picters we'd been lui on page 41

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Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
it doon Syne, some mair fishy inspiration Fae France oor neeperin EC na on page 15

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ower the page es he wytit fir inspiration te strike. on page 51

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
d was uised bi Walt Disney as inspiration for the Beast's castle in 'Be on page 17

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@d_anderson878 tweeted
cot Mither Tongue gies aw the inspiration fir it)(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
"And constantly varying inspiration for artists," chips in Effete
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Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
il i Lanarkshire; whae lackit inspiration i the clessroom, til his teac
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@officialAliRed tweeted
eadieJoanna Thank you. I take inspiration from those around me, includi(2019) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
de betther an' gies new maide inspiration tae theday's fowk an oor wean on page 19
ts an' Scots screeveners gien inspiration on page 21
gies, the inspiration o' achievements lang sine an' on page 24

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Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
orkshap an hae bin a soorce o inspiration an encouragement iver since. on page 1

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