Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

arras	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	7.8	11.8	3	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	25	23	2	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	9	7	2

Occurrences of arras in Corpus

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Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
hrie airchers aw settin their arras up in aisy reach. Stoot Ragna on page 56
arras wull flee, ful monie wull dee on page 57
airchers lat loose a volley o arras, ane hittin hame on a man's h on page 58

4 matches

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
play team, the Thrie-Coloured Arras, bairged intil ilk ither owre on page 36

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
His quiver indeed wis fu o arras, on page 17

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
a? Naebody can kill that yin. Arras skite aff him. Swords jist ti on page 6
cules fired a volley o burnin arras richt intae the monster's ham on page 11
it in ony wey. Nae chibs. Nae arras. Bring it back tae me unmalki on page 14
f ye brek ma stag, ah'll fire arras at ye for a month until ye lo on page 16
Hercules fired yin o his arras and it scuddit through the he on page 29
Also on pages 51, 53
7 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
bolts an arras buzzing aboot on page 60

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
arras faa in ilka airt, see, sodger on page 31

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
His quiver indeed wis fu o arras,
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
a muckle bow an a wheen luve-arras that he’d shoot doon at mor
whaniver he felt like it. His arras didna hurt, but they fair cau
in his fastest, maist sleekit arras at Atalanta for a haill year
Noo, aw thae arras that Eros had been dingin doo
r flawn intae space. Eros’s arras were magic: they didna stap t
7 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
e suburbs an unchancie thrang arras o weet wull faw histit bi the on page 3

1 matches

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
ce an' a lot o' squiggles an' arras an' signs an' symbols, but na
1 matches