A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

awake Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 13.3 1.6 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2725 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors18 16 1 1

Occurrences of awake in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Gandy Crush. Still very much awake.' on page 29

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s arm. A'm strugglin tae stay awake, feelin dizzy n sick. Yir gon on page 43

2 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'1 wes only checkin yeese wur awake.' on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
re this scene: each mornin ah awake fae on page 15

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
It's different noo, awake. Ye'll find that than on page 17
Whan, hauf awake she haes her hauf a snooze. on page 83
Asleep or awake nicht or day on page 120
Play the gemm o kidology awake or in bed on page 155

4 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ah jolt awake. Ah'd thought Miss Bert flew on page 37
a phone's alarm hud jolted me awake. Usually, ah huv no trouble s on page 87
he end o the funeral. Ah jolt awake, and we stand tae follow the on page 115

4 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Am I awake, asleep, mysel? I'm baith. on page 18

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
S dramatist Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing. Ithir productions i
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae the brain that keeps you awake till work ends. Apart fae tha
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
-like dream even though I wis awake. I’m sure that’s what hap
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
him tae the tree he wis wide awake. There wis a bit o defiance a
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
awa in a dwam, but she wisnae awake either. The whistlin fae the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
When the rest ay us lie awake at night tryin tae solve unso
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
wis disturbin me. Yit, ah lay awake, questionin as tae how come a
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
That night ah lay awake fur as while imaginin aw the
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
this moment he appears maire awake, and it wid seem his curiosit
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Still wide awake at 2a.m and a need tae be up (2015) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
hope the pain disnae keep ye awake tae mich.?? (2022) twitter link

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
Wide awake - WT! Must'v been the cheese(2011) search twitter

Ulster

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
o' the dake somethin else is awake, for the
1 matches

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