A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

maiden Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.8 5.6 12 0 0 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences2211 8 0 0 1 2
Number of authors16 9 4 1 2

Occurrences of maiden 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

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Cailleach an Maiden on page 32

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Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
eficit ae princes fur a noble maiden fair. on page 72

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Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
o a maiden fair an a young warriors fame on page 43

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
are fake tattoos and an Iron Maiden T-shirt under his uniform. on page 11

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
, a marakil, a clairance. Hir maiden finerie an hir habuliment, at on page 1

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Perjink an maiden-lane? on page 20
An tummelt doun ma maiden yarn yince mair on page 44

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
An tummelt doun ma maiden yarn yince mair on page 59

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
ie (The Maid o Norrowey), ilk maiden ladye of baith highe and lowe
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
He's mebbe no a maiden's vision,
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@Chazzbat tweeted
s gonnae suggest yer mither's maiden name, but ye cud get nordic a(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
s ti gie fit ye micht caa his maiden speech or virgin paper afore on page 53

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Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
hid said throw e prophit: 'E maiden will hae a loonie, an he'll b on page 7

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rach fowk caad the shaif 'The Maiden'. Gin it hid bin late, twid h
An the feet o maiden niver niver trod
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
an the boatie wis fit fur its maiden trip. The wee boorachie teeme
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@Manuforti1968 tweeted
is on in five minties an Iron Maiden were gan tae be on. Obviously(2020) search twitter
Phrases Haein a bit o an Iron Maiden day the day. ?????? https://t(2020) search twitter
minties tae midnicht - Iron Maiden #changeasongtitletidoric(2019) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
e, the words clothes-horse or maiden or drier just dinnae hae the (2020) search twitter

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
t aboot King Billy an' o' the Maiden City. on page 44

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King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
or she was lanesame lik a sea-maiden on a stane. Ah spleeled up as
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