Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

burning	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.7	3.1	3	19.9	5.8	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	12	6	2	2	1	0	1
Number of authors	12	6	2	2	1		1

Occurrences of burning in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
. In 1971, Stewart Conn's The Burning, dealin in braw Scots dialogu on page 40

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
- a living wave, a burning life. on page 35

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Jamie, Kathleen Eemis Stane 1 - Whimbrel, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
angin it aw day. Burnin fuel, burning thro their conceit of thirsel on page 5

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lies or shadiness to keep it burning.
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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ning I cannae imagine, a rash burning my brain fae the inside oot.
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Lehane, Matt Red an Black, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
we’re slow burning fuses o calm
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Doric

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n he’d wint awa and left it burning, wasting paraffin wisna the w
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@72redz1903 tweeted
, a weird spaced out feeling. Burning feeling while breathing and t (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The burning came on page 107

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Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
I'll tak this paet that's burning yet – I've got this plan �
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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
A 'lowin taand' (burning peat) was then carried around(2019) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ear hight, hke a kitth candle burning in the night. Mrs Andrews, aa on page 48

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