A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cairved Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 4.8 1.6 0 0 0 22.1
Number of occurrences159 1 0 0 0 5
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of cairved in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Yon cairved gowl o the sky that hings sae on page 2
An Killt an Cairved the Geese on page 30
Tho his cleuks cairved deep, an his birsies brent on page 46

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Cairved o unbowsome Gallowa granite. on page 87

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ichtersome Foontain, a fancy, cairved moniment that every noo and t on page 18
wis needin a lick o pent, and cairved slap-bang in the middle o it on page 21
pin richt in the middle o the cairved ee. There wis a pause, and th on page 22

3 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
e same three whaur Gaelic has cairved oot sic an inalienable place
1 matches

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
e, especially on jewellery an cairved steens - Celtic an Norse pat
1 matches

Ulster

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
o Dan’s box, gye sonsy, wus cairved a perfec epple. Tha epple wus
tha saicond box. Tha lid wus cairved wi a bonnie rose — sae sons
ohn. Tha tap o his box wasnae cairved but tha oul wumman haed buft
enst tha cottar-hoose an John cairved a wee heidstane frae tha hagg
n tha grave, an efter he haed cairved anither heidstane frae tha wu
5 matches

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