A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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audience Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words26.8 39.3 8 9.9 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences8374 5 1 0 0 3
Number of authors39 33 3 1 2

Occurrences of audience in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
tage and wanderin through the audience, singing intae aw the wummiin on page 7

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
h, kick and flyin bottle. The audience sways n oohs n ahs at the rig on page 22

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Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
company, an aming thair wide audience. Indeed, Roddy McMillan's All on page 39

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Audience wi Clair on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oass the faces ae his stunned audience. Ah wis jist sittin there pra on page 91

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
hunner and fifty weans in the audience. At the stert they thocht the on page 123
Whit's mair, he noo kent his audience were aw silently cheerin him on page 124

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
deep tae make sure she had an audience, Wee Mickey O'Rourke knocked on page 30

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
staundin up and wavin at the audience and grinnin fae lug tae lug. on page 151

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Actors and audience like barf in yer haundbag in on page 45

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Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
engage wi their Scots speakin audience. A language o the people, fae on page 3

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
lippen on the ettle, tairget audience an subject in haun. For an in on page 12
ower simplified for, a warld audience. on page 38

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
attracted the hale pub as an audience. Rab Haa wis left wi his favo on page 94

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
te-faced wimmen. Then, as the audience burst intae applause, his fac on page 134
ened tae the applause fae the audience as Act Three o The Wunnerfu W on page 142
ppin forrit tae speak tae the audience, "I've a wee annooncement tae on page 145
There were gasps fae the audience, and some o the actors looked on page 146
richt!" said a vyce frae the audience, and Klaus kent it as the vyc on page 147
Also on pages 155, 157
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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
as ah'm no keen oan havin an audience, ah know ah willnae miss any on page 90

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Him audience, each dug his day - on page 61

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Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
talk aboot, and for a special audience: graduates in adult literacy on page 97

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McCrory, Pat Lallans 56 - The Tale ae a Worm, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
The audience wis cheerin, an up oan their on page 114

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
this event attrackit a mukkil audience, an maist o the heid-bangers on page 8

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
l, wesna for Hogg's oreiginal audience). on page 140

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Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
Paw and Grandpaw (he hud the audience doublt up tae!), great bitta
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ce, Scott e’en spak til the audience). He believed that Scottish d
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Nae accessible tae the modern audience and o its ain time is a passi
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
l’t platypus. Yet whaur the audience waants tae mak a bauchle o Mo
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
he story is pure fiction. The audience haed nae bother
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
an democratic. She minded the audience that the concep o dialeck isn
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
tit his session bi mindin the audience o his richtfu annoyance at a
writers haes an international audience like Patterson an Kennedy, bu
tae hae a receptive national audience. At a risk o soondin like a c
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
morality play seen its first audience in 1530 at the coort o Henry
Whan the audience first cam intae the auditoriu
nce on 7 Juin, the feck o the audience watched the ongauns wi smilin
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ppin music for his warld-wide audience. Jimmy Shand Jr. then thankit
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
es, puns, sangs, baurs an the audience jynin in. Gallusly, the shaw
(a gey Scottish joke!) an the audience clappin in time. I'm surprise
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Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
entually they were grantit an audience wi the Wizard o Oz (a deid ri
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
realised that he’d lost his audience an’ calmed doon.
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s. Tad an than the rest o the audience jynt in. He shooshed thaim, a
screen tae the applause o the audience - an quhit gud-naturt. He ma
His audience applaudit an cried for mair,
screen tae the applause o the audience - an quhit gud-naturt. He ma
His audience applaudit an cried for mair,
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McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
an acts i this play, taks the audience through a range o attitudes t
The set-up is that the audience is gied cairds wi questions t
Taewards the end, audience memmers wis encouraged tae sp
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Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
, Sheena an Grace regaled the audience wi traditional sangs an tales
tradition o storytellin, the audience wis sat in a circle an encour
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
ger is the first bit o muckle-audience saftweir tae come tae haund i
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ts wi their een on a Scottish audience, it’s important tae tak ten
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Facebook link ( 2017) Central
ved tae hae a fu hoose and an audience that didna fa asleep. Mind ye

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
Gled o a captive audience in they came, indulged themse

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
Powerpoint Presentation an ma audience seem richt receptive when sud

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
Ah cudna resist showin the audience some historical facts relatin
e wrote specially for me. The audience really liked her words an her

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
as tae help an English-readin audience (includin Scots never exposed
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Letford, William This Is It, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central - Stirling, poetry
toon, an audience eh one radge eatin a
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@Cobradile94 tweeted
Aye be blythe wi the audience ye'v got! https://t.co/IExaq2(2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
noticed a backing band or an audience in the video ?????? https://t (2022) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Yer sic a bonny audience on page 127

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
an Duncan didna fash gin the audience didna ken aa the words; that on page 126

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
an Duncan didna fash gin the audience didna ken aa the words; that
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
bs, and for funny things, the audience is international. The more im (2020) twitter link
y fer a Caribbean an American audience, but important fer fowk tae s (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
alient things aboot language, audience, and broadcasting.
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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
s fixation on the pictur. The audience follae'd the three stooges an on page 1

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
hew Ulster-Scots tae a readie audience. In 2021 the Boord o' Ulster- on page 45
culture tae mair nor a locail audience, bit fer a qualitie product s on page 54

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