Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thieves	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	8.3	9.1	6	19.9	5.8	20.7	0
Number of occurrences	27	18	4	2	1	2	0
Number of authors	13	7	2	2	1	1

Occurrences of thieves 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

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
ot it, if there were grown-up thieves, weel, thae thieves must yinc on page 32
She thocht aboot thieves and whit tae dae aboot them. on page 33
o a thief bein at the schuil thieves spylt awthin: they made awbod on page 47
That doesna mean that they're thieves,' She paused lookin doon at P on page 56
ecious in triumph. 'Yon's yer thieves, Maw. See yon!' on page 75

7 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'I see. Honour amongst thieves then. You think your friends on page 54

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
k ma heid. We wur as thick as thieves until Primary Twa. Then it wa on page 7

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
me we were awa fae thon den o thieves. We need, an deserve, better, on page 39

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ey had the James's siller the thieves went aff, no even batherin ta on page 106

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
e ma heid. We wur as thick as thieves until primary two. Then it wi on page 17

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
"Thieves! skraiked Ratton. 'Reivers! C on page 71

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
an thieves. Yon man glazie on page 21
thieves, hoors an ither scum, on page 37

2 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
o of them really – thick as thieves and just as wily, as the demi
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
Weel, beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold, the Bard sa
1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ae Jericho, an he fell in amo thieves, fa strippit him o his claes, on page 98
l e chiel att wis set on bi e thieves?" Says he, "The een att wis g on page 99
er, bit ee've made it a den o thieves'." An he preacht ilka day i t on page 113

3 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
, the Scaninavians werna just thieves. They traded aroun the warld
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the sam thraets an offers tae thieves an arbitraetors, ithoot a wit on page 74

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Beggars and thieves they called is, on page 22

1 matches

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Continuous at sea defence, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2015) Shetland, poetry
scatter da thieves an murderers
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Frae thieves tae limmer killers on page 41
The twae as thick as thieves on page 42

2 matches