A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ornaments Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 2.5 9 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences135 6 0 2 0 0
Number of authors9 3 4 2

Occurrences of ornaments in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
the stomach wi lots ay lovely ornaments and get in, get in, get in wi on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
mory. Ah never liked hauf the ornaments an souvenirs she’d amassed
e point though; they were her ornaments, her collection ay tea towels
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
sais, ‘ . . . aw these wee ornaments an that, ye should go oan tae
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
ence it made tae Mawe and her ornaments, and then me and ma tons a bo (2022) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
lean the cutlery, braisse the ornaments, an polish the windaes wi vin
1 matches

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
leased. I then took aff a her ornaments aff the mantelpiece and pit t
em on the fleer. Some o these ornaments were affa expensive and preci
saw ane o ma mither’s best ornaments broken intae hunreds o bits.
3 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
wi some gye expensive lookin ornaments put me aff my styter. She mus
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Peterhead Ideal paperweights, ornaments or loving keepsake. https://t(2017) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
da souvenirs we took hame, da ornaments, on page 52

1 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
gadderie o hansels. Picters, ornaments, dyshes, claes, dyshtooels, b
1 matches

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