A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

welsh Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words25 27.7 10.5 29.8 40.7 62 13.3
Number of occurrences8155 7 3 7 6 3
Number of authors32 20 4 1 3 2 2

Occurrences of welsh in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
a piece o paper. It's why Mrs Welsh sang hur sangs and didnae wri on page 7

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hear aboot thum in an Irvine Welsh novel. on page 42

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
es o Scottish, an English, an Welsh industry in their ideological on page 23

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tom ae the register after Zoe Welsh's. Because the teacher makes on page 46
re. Winston Turner. Here. Zoe Welsh. Here. AND CHARLENE CLARK. Pr on page 47

2 matches

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Celtic language, relatit tae Welsh an mair distantly tae Gaelic; on page 107

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
o urban slang, likes o Irvine Welsh's; an faithfu, feckfu writins on page 56

4 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
t year-hunder poem wrutten in Welsh - tae contemporar fowk lik W on page 15

2 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
frae readin the wark o Irvine Welsh. on page 91

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
nkin, Jeff Torrington, Irvine Welsh, Matthew Fitt an Liz Lochhead
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
tten oot in this section as:- Welsh, Gaelic, Irish an Ulster Scot
1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
Mission for 2000-2005”, the Welsh Leid Board
16 Welsh Language Board: “A Vision a
82. In Wales, a Welsh Leid Board wis estaiblished b
d produced a Strategy for the Welsh leid in 1996. It has sinsyne
promotion o the Welsh leid, bilingualism an Welsh-M
17 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
nae hae the official status o Welsh or English in the United King
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
her Scots scrievers - Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, Kathleen Jamie
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
juist aboot the same for the Welsh language, music an culture. W
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
nae ging on tuim-wamit. Baith Welsh an Irish sodgers are recordit
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
d owreset Chinese poetry inti Welsh, was in sic a lowe wi’t, he
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
the real dream. Afore Charles Welsh Berry dee'd, this dream cam t
Charles Welsh Berry wis born in the Lang To
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
is speech in his hamelt leid, Welsh, than cairriet on in English.
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Auld Welsh,
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
c ware o the vote in the 2011 Welsh an UK referendums.
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
fewer nor seiven saets i the Welsh Senedd, Halyruid remains as m
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
erguson, Tone Julskjaer, Gary Welsh. Owerset intae Scots by Matth
t frae Tone Julskjaer an Gary Welsh tae bring the cairacters an k
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
, David Blunket, acceppit the Welsh language alang wi Scots Gaeli
thon commonty an like-wise wi Welsh speakers bidin in Wales. But
t wadna be logical tae accepp Welsh an Gaelic speakers, but if th
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
answers tae the questions on Welsh, Irish, Gaelic an Ulster Scot
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
tae shaw us hamelt English an Welsh news an pit it forrit as Brit
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
on, Irish, Scottish Gaelic an Welsh, this stravaiger is the first
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
honic or Brittonic - leids o Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Speikers
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Nick_Pye time the welsh folks stopped being boyo n st (2020) twitter link
@SimonMount2 be oan to the welsh n irish lads not taking the k (2021) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
P. S. The Welsh lad won.
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@originalfm Whau's thon Welsh Quine Spikkin oan the wireles(2015) search twitter
TonyHill80 aye loon, you thon Welsh fella that wis oan @johnnydee(2015) search twitter
Guid tae hear thon Welsh Quine Clara pumpin’ the #cri(2018) search twitter
cuid hud his wheesht so thon Welsh fella Tommy git a wordie edge(2015) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
Will the English Irish n Welsh nae get weet? https://t.co/AZ(2020) search twitter

@glenlivetloon tweeted
an likely as same faimlay as Welsh...(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
tury? The resurrectionists of Welsh, Cornish, Manx achieve tremen
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
e status and profile o Scots. Welsh TV drama flits perfectly natu
ly naturally atween subtitled Welsh and English. And thoosands o
2 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
eltic an fae da sam branch as Welsh. on page 13
rt, middle an aest o England. Welsh in Wales an Cornish in Cornwa on page 14

2 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
e associate wi languages laek Welsh, Gaelic, Faroese, Catalan, Fr
coorse Tom Leonard an Irvine Welsh. Tom Leonard in parteecular w
o urban slang, likes o Irvine Welsh’s; an faithfu, fackfu writi
3 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Towt I wid try a grain a Welsh on Duolingo, an am already gi (2020) twitter link
if only all welsh wis dis aesy https://t.co/vhV (2021) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
; is mair nor liklie ane Auld Welsh naem; ae left owre naem frae
naem frae the tyme whan Auld Welsh wis the langage o the Scottis
an Mr an Mrs Welsh bade it Whit’ope, the ootby
pages 147/153). Saivrel o the Welsh bairns gaed til Roberton Schu
r cryit, Carolyne an Georgina Welsh.
5 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
Derek_Douglas50 @RugbySco Rob Welsh is a gem of a man.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
iar thuathail' (confusion) or Welsh 'cythrwfl' (turmoil). Confuse(2020) search twitter

@the_gellick tweeted
ir writin in dialect: Kelman, Welsh, Robertson. (2016) twitter link
n @NorthernIreland - gie the Welsh hallions a quare begunk the n (2016) twitter link