A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

patterns Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.9 2.5 1.5 29.8 29.1 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences165 1 3 5 1 1
Number of authors13 5 1 3 2 1 1

Occurrences of patterns in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
dy tae talk tae aboot knittin patterns an thir'll be naebdy tae come on page 169

1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 58 - twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Patterns o becomin; days at heids and on page 95

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
She'd draw curly patterns in the whitenin on page 58

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Eyes bleared with patterns,
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
h so it wis bleezin wi light, patterns scattered across it, even pit
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fingers inno the watter. Lang patterns o lirks an swirls o blaik an
1 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
Veerie-orums = patterns or ornamentation; often 'eeri on page 9

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Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
thir's patterns an swirls tae be seen in the on page 17

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Hershaw, William Seivin Verses for GMB, (Scottish Poetry Library 2015) Orkney, poetry
for signs and kennings, patterns
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
nd's turn still a mird o wird patterns on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
o foo a coose o patterns play der pairt, on page 21
shörmal patterns laced wi froad. on page 38

2 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I'm enjoyin da patterns and colour returnin tae my ga(2014) search twitter
Bonny patterns in da flooers in my garden #'(2013) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
knock ma heid aff durin sleep patterns?(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
address the shifts in viewin' patterns, (fer example on page 54

1 matches

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