A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

colonies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1 3 9.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences72 2 1 1 1 0
Number of authors5 1 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of colonies in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
en eftir kintras stoppit bein colonies, they were thirlit ae wey or on page 27

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
wonder that whan the American colonies threw aff the yoke o British on page 121

1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
letons aneth the sea tae bigg colonies yonner. They'd the face o a c
ining, hired fur a tour o the colonies tae perk up her dwinin financ
2 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
he ooter Nordren Fed an Angle colonies is that closs tae claikan she on page 74

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
life too is understated. Nae colonies staandin beak tae ferocious b on page 91

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
oled yon fir sae lang? O aye, colonies.(2020) search twitter