A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

candles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 3 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences96 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of candles in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
nae windae. We brought a few candles up n sat them aboot tae see i on page 4
is aboot five or six tealight candles burnin on the wooden fittings on page 32

2 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
thaim. She set up three white candles. At the heid, she sat her gra on page 1

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
look round at the flooers and candles, at all the folk dressed up i on page 3

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
re torches aw ower the place, candles burnin in windaes, aw the shi on page 125

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
day cakes noo that haud sixty candles lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
checked tae see if he hid candles, jist in case the licht went
1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
side it’s like a shrine, wi candles an photies instead o tomatoes
1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An wi candles will no be baet. on page 115

1 matches

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