A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of rhythm in Corpus

Central

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
or rhythm in the buik o life on page 53

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
's fresh, it's fest, it's got rhythm on page 109

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
pulsin tae some kind o oorie rhythm! 'Ach it's no naethin,' he mu on page 65

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ae boonce up and doon tae the rhythm. on page 155

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Felt the rhythm o life beat lik a drum on page 39

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Wi stapless rhythm, wi gaithrin speed thuds out on page 28

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
dart - yer ain element, ain rhythm, wished well in aw ye dae. on page 22

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Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
The graith's rhythm sweetens friable tilth. on page 107

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
erse, Purdie seems tae favour rhythm, rhyme an particlar styles, t
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n mony weys, parteicularly be rhythm an be parallelism (whilk afte
llelism (whilk aften produces rhythm), be cheens o synonyms, an be
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - The Man Wha Jeopardeized The Continued Existence O The Universe, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
rhythm o the fallin sterns, kythin a
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Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
The music blared. The rhythm flowed. The dancers danced. O
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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
went inside ma banes intae a rhythm o a hairtbeat. An then A mind
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
wey throu, hingin on tae the rhythm o the original.
Tae hear the natural rhythm o speech captured weel raithe
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hat didnae miss a beat in its rhythm nor in its modern references
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
wis soothered bi the order an rhythm o the kitchen's wark. It fein
tuary Time, Maureen uises the rhythm and repetition o street fowks
e title propones. Wi a rowein rhythm, By the burnie that feeds the
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
For rhythm an’ pace, you don’t have
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ot it, the ilk smell, the ilk rhythm, objecks in the ilk places.
clappit an aa, pickin up the rhythm an wonnerin whitna gemm she w
the tunic. She tane back the rhythm an he raised an imaginary spe
he jynt her in clappin as the rhythm slawed ... than she side-step
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Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
r tae a ‘Scottish dialectal rhythm.’ For someone wha is descri
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Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
st snoke the pinewood – the rhythm o Gaelic, the michty Grampian
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Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - Oor Grun, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
reek o the earth, the ragged rhythm o his bleed as he canters. on page 88

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Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
An the rhythm kept time on page 15

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
fan the rhythm o life kept time wi the seaso on page 3

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Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
As lang as there is rhythm that'll keep me gyan. on page 13

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ae sattle inno a kinno uneasy rhythm. At sax o clock ilkie mornin,
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
Eence he gets the hang o the rhythm, he clambers doon the rest o
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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gallows Ha - Annie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ingin an gently movin tae the rhythm on page 30

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Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
aa the rhythm sheu saa i'the dance, an naen on page 155

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Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
tip-tap the rhythm on page 51

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Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The rhythm o the waves broken only by th on page 27

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Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Rhythm o the machinery on page 36
swayan tae the rhythm o a St Bernard's Waltz on page 154

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
tae da sea's haert-baet, hits rhythm, on page 34

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
2.3 Prosody: Da melody an rhythm o Shaetlan on page 28

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De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Der music an der rhythm's shape can baith on page 21

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Ulster