A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

alairms Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.6 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences109 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of alairms in Corpus

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Central

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
s, in a wey, a skairer in hiz alairms. He hed taen me asyde ae day on page 4

1 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Sound-aff rhetorical alairms: on page 55

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
alairms gairdit affluent hooses, an t
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
efter aa. “Hiv ye got fire alairms?” she spiers, convoyin them
e hoose an pyntin at the fire alairms she’s been oot buyin.
nits tae fit aside o the fire alairms, doorbells, the phone, aa kin
er neebor tae gie ye the fire alairms.”
the batteries in aa the fire alairms afore she’s awa tae her bed
6 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ant's center. Sheu canno hear alairms noo. Sheu only waatches. on page 154

1 matches

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