A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sonsy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 17.7
Number of occurrences105 1 0 0 0 4
Number of authors6 3 1 2

Occurrences of sonsy in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
baith tryin hard tae stap the sonsy Dormous intae the teapot. on page 44

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
on - John Broun - a sturdy, sonsy, happy bairn, that soukt weel on page 44
it wis different. She wis nou sonsy whaur ance she micht hae been on page 55

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
We a sonsy face an thi Selkirk Grace on page 121

1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
nae ayeweys a guid thing. The sonsy middens waled nae tae dae muc
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
THAT'LL LEARN "ER A sonsy deem wis Aggie Fite A hame-he on page 15

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Aboot yer sonsy, fauncy gear on page 6
A sonsy lass, wi bonnie een, on page 30

2 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
an tha tap o Dan’s box, gye sonsy, wus cairved a perfec epple.
rved wi a bonnie rose — sae sonsy an guid-leukkin at ye wudda t
2 matches

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