A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

northern Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20.1 18.7 12 109.3 17.4 10.3 22.1
Number of occurrences6537 8 11 3 1 5
Number of authors36 21 8 1 3 1 3

Occurrences of northern in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
NORTHERN ROSES From the Hungarian of L on page 30

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
a hard border atween them an Northern Ireland - it wuid be a polit on page 144

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Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ears lecturin at Aiberdeen's Northern College, he tuik airlie retir on page 4

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
urately be described as early northern Middle English: Scholars of S on page 15

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
nary effort, this time in the Northern Caucasus that's stull a debat on page 11

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
northern sea. on page 87

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Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
Northern Lanarkshire wather's spittin on page 107

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
steerers in baith Scotland an Northern Ireland haes been haein words
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
˜originally Scots and perhaps Northern English’ is cosie. The Scot
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Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
sh dialects uises it, an some Northern Scots anes disna (I dinna spe
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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
agi, whae bidit in modern-dey northern and eastern Scotland aboot 1,
This means that, oot-through northern and eastern Scotland, people
settlement taen place in the Northern and Western Isles o Scotland
le territory, specifically in northern and eastern Scotland, includi
he University o Aiberdeen’s Northern Picts Project a wee follae on
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
accoont o life for miners in northern France an thair fecht, while
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Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
nce free. Awbody likes a guid Northern-English 'accent', eh? It's wa
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
aving aside Caithness and the Northern Isles) are almost all found l
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Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
n the licht o developments in Northern Ireland anent a Scots Languag
Scots had legal status etc in Northern Ireland but no in Scotland. T
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
THE crack comin oot o Northern Ireland threaps that, as pair
evive the devolved Assembly o Northern Ireland, it wis greed tae mak
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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
A cooling breeze frae the Northern hills telt him that the rains
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Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
nuar: in some airts a dance o northern lichts, but in maist places,
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
re Section wadna check wi the Northern.
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McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
cht we see the PASOKification northern English Labour, as we did wi
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
rtably held their saets i the Northern Isles, demonstratin that the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
Scots can be heard on the BBC Northern Ireland wab-steid an aw sae w
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
affinity atween Scots and its northern neebour tongues – is a freq
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
an. Its roots gang back tae a northern dialect o Auld English/Anglo-
sic as the north-east and the Northern Isles. It is less kenably str
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@IshbelMcF tweeted
t the linguistic situation in Northern Ireland (WHA DISNAE?), my @Sc(2019) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ly recommend the Dolomites in northern Italy. In summer weather hot (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Northern Ireland tae lock doon for a m(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
plenty games on today in the northern alliance league div 2 - awe (2020) twitter link

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
Northern Ireland, the Falklands War, t on page 23

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Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Be Long, Help an It's Only A Northern Song on page 174

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Philp, George Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
An John Buchan's Northern Muse" - on page 138

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n the boord o directors o the Northern Mart.
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Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
y is ay the North East an the Northern Isles wi strang enclaves in F
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ng Houdini? Chips n gravy tae Northern fur me!(2016) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
e herd mi spikk he remixed in Northern Lights into i Bluebell Polka.(2020) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
Bid a brig atween Scotland n Northern Ireland th say ?? jist look h(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
“ wae a peedie bit o positive northern chauvinism thrown in for good
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Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
e o riches spread beneath the northern sky. It’s possible for a vi
cal-striped lighthoose in the northern hemisphere, we gaither groatt
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Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
s plain is the breid basket o northern Italy. It’s whar the fermer
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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
land’. But ken and kent are northern verbs, used throughout Scandi
Whar ither than in the Northern Isles wid ye get proper, auth
ows and the Scots used in the Northern Isles are much more numerous
ey, or the acceptability o ‘Northern’ accents within mainstream
wer tae hear some pretty good Northern Isles Scots in this mainstrea
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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
Norn died ... was because the Northern Isles became more and more or
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@tattooedselkie tweeted
t we dinna spik Gaelic in the Northern Isles, among ither things!(2021) search twitter

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Immer güs (Great northern diver) fae da Fetlar ferry #b(2015) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ld man playin French Horn fur Northern Sinfonia durin that time afor(2020) 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 to experiential tourism in Northern Ireland 2013. on page 63

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@Angelinekking tweeted
@Lenniesaurus Half of Northern Ireland was blootered last ni(2020) search twitter
g a horse's gallop): from Old Northern French walop (noun), waloper (2020) search twitter
tae see thon kinda spirit in Northern Ireland!(2020) search twitter

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
s are is a bad ambassador for Northern Ireland ??(2020) search twitter

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