A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

barleycorn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 1.5 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences74 1 0 0 1 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of barleycorn in Corpus

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Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
war aye blinn fou o the John Barleycorn, an he wad gaun aboot hissel. on page 21

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
John Barleycorn an Jock Tamson on page 69

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
I grieve John Barleycorn, auld freen, on page 31

1 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
O mirth an bold John Barleycorn.
1 matches

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
n A taen a likin for the John Barleycorn an he taen a likin tae me, an on page 98

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
spired nae doot by bauld John Barleycorn. on page 141

1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Til John Barleycorn cheepit in his lug, "Yer driv on page 5

1 matches

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