A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

oa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 7.6 3 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1815 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors14 11 2 1

Occurrences of oa 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. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
s Latin Grammar buik, "A mous-oa mous--tae a mous-a mous-O mou on page 21

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ustralia, New Zealand, the US oA, on page 77

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
t planet, but they keep a hud oa balance an' a perspective, an on page

2 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Oot oa lair in the flocked leaves in on page 178

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
he meenit a constituent pairt oa memberstate o the EU, wi aw t on page 140

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
n we soond the letter 'o' as 'oa'. This can be fund in mony co on page 18

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
a muckle mansion at the hert oa thrang and grimy city, and no on page 2

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Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
And oa, hingin ower them on page 98

2 matches

Briggs, Susi The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Princess and the Grumphieman, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
"A musical box in the shape oa bonnie bird!" gasped the Prin on page 86

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Cain, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Yit oa, he kill't his brither. on page 72

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
is precedit wi a "ea", "ee", "oa" or "oo" (this happens for th
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ple, tends ti think on the ‘oa’ soond in words like ‘sho
o’ in words like cot, an ‘oa’ in words like coat, at ith
2 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
d sumtyme's chap a limpet aff oa rock or crack oppin thi back on page 1

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
tell ye the truth, he's a bit oa sair-erse." on page 33

1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
r, Wullie had bin haein a bit oa sleep in tha airm-chair, eftà on page 17

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