Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wisp	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	1.5	3	0	5.8	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	7	3	2	0	1	0	1
Number of authors	7	3	2		1		1

Occurrences of wisp 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

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
min an gaun like a will o the wisp an leadin the dragoons a rich on page 30

1 matches

Scott, Finola Lallans 102 - The Galloway Hoard, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
A wee will o the wisp, ma treisur. on page 10

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Thon wisp o yours would kill us aa in t on page 31

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ee micht hae lichted on a wee wisp o clood, lik stame comin oot on page 40

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ays a kindly carer, brushin a wisp o fite hair fae Elsie's broo. on page 45

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
Aedie, pu a wisp oot on page 17

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
speak. She brushed bak a lang wisp o fair hair frae his cheek an on page 3

1 matches