A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

The word 'retoured'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
retouredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3143
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of retoured 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.

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
tir thon, cam John Buchan. He retoured ti mair sempil, kibbil fowk l
A wes seik o’t, sae A retoured ti wirkin in ane offish an di
The lave o the sop retoured ti weitnes the ferlie. Nane o
aventurers retoured ti Embro, laein Andra wi thai
ngil wird o thair sorraes, he retoured ti bed.
7 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
e dinna ken hou auld ye are." retoured the wum-man.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
e's rigg fur hauf a mament. A retoured it til its makkar, at A hed s on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
slopin aff ti pray. Whan thai retoured Barbar's chesell hed aft taen on page 44

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ae towmond i 1960/61, efter A retoured frae Sud Afrika: afore A gaed
. Latterlie afore Mr. Stavert retoured for guid frae
nisht thum an strecht aff hei retoured tae Girnwud an haundit owre t
retoured back past the garage door, wi
4 matches

Web Analytics