A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nay Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words48.4 3.6 203.5 0 5.8 82.7 17.7
Number of occurrences1557 135 0 1 8 4
Number of authors15 7 3 1 1 3

Occurrences of nay 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

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
'Nay, lass. It wad serve nae guid on page 43

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
n owerfrockt black affrontit, nay, offendit lady on page 33

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
I needna have worried. She'd nay teeth. on page 22

1 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Did onybody ken him? Naebody, nay!) on page 22

1 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
The Blae Ribban nay-saying the dram, on page 80

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
There’s nay turnin back noo, ah hink, sit
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
t's no for me to gie a yea or nay,
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
uddick an pick aff thi fin's, Nay bad bait sumtyme's, Bit the p on page 1
pper Line wid run throo so as nay tae weer on thi gunnel, an fi on page 3
draa baak weis eit their weis nay coal fyre tae welcum yea, eit on page 4
n on cit, bit Muskcy, stannin nay far fae thi clump, notyst eit on page 6
n leed fur wer ripper's, so's nay tae be disturbed. "Dayvideee, on page 9
Also on pages 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 65, 65, 67, 68
130 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Who's till go doon e chimney?-Nay, A willna! He do id!-A?# A wi on page 36

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
Nay the worst podcast loons, ul g(2020) search twitter
oot players we luv tae hate. Nay gid when they hay a load o oo(2020) search twitter
den on the 31st for oor semi. Nay footie ups oor those dykes.(2020) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Thule Revisited, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
lik dunters i da jap, nay sicht o varg,
1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
f ana. There just seems ti be nay light at the end o the tunnel(2020) search twitter
elf in edinbugh tomorrow. Eye nay bother dot scott. #chillootau(2018) search twitter
et the t made for me cause am nay gid at it she says.plus a nva(2012) search twitter
on46 yir sister is oot ana so nay chance o anything here #getro(2012) search twitter
Back ti work the morn.nay mare long lies. #fairlookingf(2012) search twitter
and 3 other occurrences.

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
He wus a dacent boadie wi nay bak dorrs, a good man without on page 32

2 matches

Hanna, Wendy Gaitherin’ Purdas!, (Facebook - Schomberg Society 2020) Ulster, poetry
Fir there’s nay time tae footer or spoof.
1 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@Ultach1014 Aww nay snaw? Am quare scunnerd wit i (2020) twitter link

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