Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nun	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.4	4.6	1.5	0	0	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	11	9	1	0	0	0	1
Number of authors	5	3	1				1

Occurrences of nun 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

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
n snot, she's a five-yearauld nun in the makin. Hauf way doon t on page 7

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Martyr of St Paul's, Civilian nun, on page 55

1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
THE NUN WHO DECIDED TAE INTERVENE
rs nur nuhin, ther wis jist a nun. The nun decided tae interven
. The nun decided tae intervene.
ap! Stoap! Somedae stoap that nun prayin! The MacGlinchies ur
thon wean comes oot while the nun's prayin it'll be boarn a
7 matches

Doric

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
drab as a Puir Clare nun. Further doon on page 18

1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
aff yince on a kerrant wae a nun hame frae the missions he run on page 49

1 matches