A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ways Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20 24.2 4.5 0 40.7 10.3 26.6
Number of occurrences6548 3 0 7 1 6
Number of authors42 30 3 5 1 3

Occurrences of ways in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
en like yon wae yer unsettled ways. Kept yersel tae yersel, the on page 78

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
funds, it's either taxis both ways or a bottle n a taxi back up. on page 38
everybody goes their separate ways, that wis on page 44

2 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Canny o the ways o fowks, on page 16
O Rab's philanderin ways. on page 22

2 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
epent thair cheese an tomatae ways on page 23

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
ted in the answer, they're a''ways foo o' banter an' their chat' on page

6 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ice relationship in a loat ay ways, she loves eez faimly, eez ma on page 3

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
e school wis shite in a lot o ways, and ah hated ma teacher wi a on page 7

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
wumman's unco looks and unco ways are near impossible tae descr on page 61

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
eh love watchin ir ways, on page 68

1 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ibliography', his 'ramshackle ways of working', lea us wi nae In on page 84

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
been that busy thinkin aboot ways that ah could try an stop mas on page 91

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
e dinnae clean up an mend yer ways, on page 35

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
omach. She wis a star in some ways,bur ma memory's away. on page 115

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
the vowel an gaed their ways on page 50

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
d fae their starkly differing ways of speech, Evans wiz indirect
h cid bore ye wi aw the fancy ways Evans’ wid refer to his but
2 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
There are wonderful ways that ideas, feelings and stor
1 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Haimster Pairty, (Scots Hoose 2016) Central, weans
o anymair, she got set in hir ways
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
chter for her culture in many ways, she’s no regarded as dange
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
pleased tae see us - she ay'ways liked the Langside students,
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
For laughter, he would ay’ways seek.
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
Ah ae’ways got Oor Wullie (or the Broons
alternate years) an Rab ae’ways got The Beano or The Dandy or
h wis a wee lad, ‘n ah ae’ways thocht we hud plenty in commo
ye micht say. Or as Andy ae’ways said, whit with him havin’
that’s jist his university ways comin’ oot.
5 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
hite How isit ye hink yur a’ways right Ye’d even argy black
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
whar I'm steyan, and aw their ways. The young mistress has gotte
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
Guid Folk cleave tae the Auld Ways an niver lit a deed awa unrew
he Second Sight an travel the Ways thit the er races cuildnae ac
Donald, fyr he kent the Auld Ways an kept them also.
3 matches

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Showin’ itsel’ in many ways,
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
g an government fur thur evil ways. As ye can imagine this dinda

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
aft echo yin anither in ither ways anaw.
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
rse over elbow, seventy seven ways tae Strichen and back off his(2020) search twitter

@changed_days tweeted
There are apparently 250 odd ways tae eat them. Think av done a (2021) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
How no, 'Aw best'? Ony ither ways o signin aff in Scots? #Scots (2019) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
he same sentence 17 different ways.(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ip today 2 fife - works both ways though - pity it wasnt midwe (2020) twitter link
l_sport personal insults both ways a think lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
aboot aa the new-fangled ferm ways at ye hiv noo,' Bella said, i on page 84

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
an spak o death in ways at distanced him. on page 41

1 matches

Crawford, Jack The Pluffer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
I wis walking aboot the hall ways and saw a kid wis pickin on m
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
"You're very naïf in the ways of the world," he sed. "Girls on page 35

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
- (e)d, but in various other ways. Very often the vowel on page 73

2 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
a wonderful event in so many ways. Thankfully, there's great mu(2020) search twitter
ure. Bit overwhelming in many ways just now. He's a peerie gem x(2017) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
@R_odanort Yeah dirs a lock o ways to pronounce him across de is(2020) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
en rackin my brain to think o ways tae reuse V’s stained school (2019) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The mending o' their ways on page 24

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
She wud hae bin reared in the ways o the Andrews' femlie, an tic on page 35
weans, that there are no two ways about it, she must do the Lor on page 40
isie despaired o hit ma's oul ways an wunnered why she had iver on page 42

3 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Al'ways at han' tae gie mae comfort, on page 32

2 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
lster ava, hooaniver, in mony ways the folk fae Scotland and Uls (2015) twitter link

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