A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pupil Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 5.7 7.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1811 5 1 0 1 0
Number of authors15 10 3 1 1

Occurrences of pupil 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

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
placed wan face doon on each pupil's desk. Haein distributed the on page 41
e belt wis designed so that a pupil's ootstreitched haun cud be s on page 42

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
She knows nearly every single pupil an quite a lot ae thir parent on page 33

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
he verra centre, in the bleck pupil, a wee spairk o wild exciteme on page 57

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
n general. Whan speirt, ae P7 pupil o Letham PS reponed, "Ah'm no
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
wha wes his ‘fag’ (a yung pupil wha cairries oot scodgie wark
1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
promote equality an help ilka pupil benefit fae education, wi par
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Teacher an pupil support an resoorces
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
dess decided tae pey her auld pupil a veesit. Disguisin hersel as
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
s like we werenay teacher and pupil anymore. We were Rovers. Two
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
the bins please! Nixt time a pupil says grammar exercises are po(2017) search twitter

Doric

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
ctre o a six year aald skweel pupil shooting daid, the ither day,
the ither day, anither infant pupil in a Michigan elementary skwe
2 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
written by Owen Irvine, an S6 pupil at Banff Academy.
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
, owerset an illustrated by a pupil the day. The bairns accessed (2021) twitter link
@OrkneyWirds A pupil at Banff Academy once spiered (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Bessie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Mistress Petrie, I wis a good pupil, on page 18

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
lang afore A wis born, ane ex-pupil o at
1 matches

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