Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

playgrun	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.2	3.5	12	0	0	0	8.9
Number of occurrences	17	7	8	0	0	0	2
Number of authors	12	6	4				2

Occurrences of playgrun 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

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
self-isolatin rooks patrollin playgrun, nebbin, gaitherin an blether on page 77

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
d play wi a tanner baa in the playgrun at denner time, an Ernie wad on page 65

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
thon. Scots is a leid ae the playgrun and hame, ae bairnies and gra on page 3

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
wid tell jokes in the school playgrun at playtime, we used tae tell on page 46

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
He scored twenty goals in the playgrun
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Efter mentionin grannies, the playgrun an humour, she gaes on tae re
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Tales Fae The Doric Side - Bullied, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Jist playgrun banter, the teachers think on page 55

1 matches

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
Fan oot in the playgrun the quines wir the worst on page 25

1 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 58 - .. an the SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
r or fae yer ain 21st century playgrun, or if ye hae a Scots spoken on page 111

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
in the dry lavvies oot in the playgrun, the timmer seats stukken wi
lifts, like ye played in the playgrun. She wis mair bamboozlit nur
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
, an we heard bits o't in the playgrun. A story aboot a quine an twa
1 matches

Wilson, Heidi and Isla Then and noo, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Keith, prose
y waatched o’er them in the playgrun they could be trusted,
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Hughie, who had juist gien a playgrun soliloquy tae mairk the arriv on page 19

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Oor playgrun wus alang tha shore on page 2

1 matches