A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

blasts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 4.6 3 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences149 2 0 1 2 0
Number of authors9 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of blasts in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
s the White Rabbit blew three blasts oan the trumpet, then unrolle on page 108

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
a polish. And wae jist a few blasts ae Vanilla Febreeze air fresh on page 143
oass his mooth tae ensure the blasts ae hate he's littin oot is mu on page 163
hus offered me some welcomed blasts fae the pasts. It jist goes t on page 167

3 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
windaes an there were regular blasts o rain, wi bits o sleet an ha on page 64

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
Fierce blasts o muir flung fistfus o rain i on page 107

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
He blasts his horn again an does his ai
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
er aboot his new book, 'Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers' oan @BBCR (2020) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
iss e White Rabbit blew three blasts on e trumpet, an then unrolle on page 105
an e White Rabbit blew three blasts on e trumpet, an called oot, on page 106

2 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
; an da White Rabbit gae tree blasts apo da trumpet, an cried, "Fi on page 111

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
is th White Rabbit blew threi blasts oan th trumpet, an then unrol on page 109

2 matches

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