A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

legends Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.5 17.5 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences3734 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors16 13 3

Occurrences of legends in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Urban Legends on page 3

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
in mythical interventions and legends. on page 3

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 85 - Roads, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
nems rolled aff yer tung lik legends. on page 10

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
he race, tuim yer harns o the legends that smoor this place, that'v on page 77

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
They think the legends are a joke, Their walth's in on page 14

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That ken the gloom o legends but we'll mak better stories, on page 19

1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
"Myths and legends, the deadly plague epidemic, on page 9

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
(Barbour, Legends of the Saints) on page 33
ourselves, creatin tales and legends meant tae mak fowk feel sairy on page 45

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
o time sindry cultures makkit legends aboot the cheil in the Moon â
Gird, Mairs haes gien us mony legends an tales, whither fae the Aul
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
classes, o’ sic events are legends made! It also minds me o’ s
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ttish Urban Myths and Ancient Legends (Stroud: The History Press).
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
amieYourdon Hallo ya bunch of legends. (2020) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
re against the lowland league legends m8 (2020) twitter link
be what a choon n look at the legends in the band - quality (2020) twitter link
@DeanBrett62 thae laddies r legends - n ad b the first tae buy t (2020) twitter link
d - u caley lads have too - legends likes (2021) twitter link
burghpaper @JoshTaylorBoxer 2 legends in one photo defo - great ge (2020) twitter link
and 15 other occurrences.

Doric

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
An scenes o ancient legends fa’
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
centre (mair drink) efter a a legends corpy and a 0-0 draw Archie w(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
y chunce ye can fit me in the legends slot at the Echt Show as I pl(2016) search twitter

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