Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

coward	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.3	4	3	0	0	10.3	0
Number of occurrences	11	8	2	0	0	1	0
Number of authors	6	3	2			1

Occurrences of coward in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Young Daniel thinks he wis a coward, an he's right. He wis a bloo on page 12

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
see them cry Davie fer bein a coward, for shairly nae man wuid be on page 87
'll be kennt far an wide as a coward and he'll bother us nae mair. on page 88

2 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Wee Pat bawled, 'Ye're a coward,' an e pushed me as well, bit on page 45

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tions. Fur toppin himsel! The coward’s waiy oot!
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Young Daniel thinks he wis a coward, an he’s right. He wis a bl
he’s right. He wis a bloody coward! He might huv escaped fae whi
2 matches

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
aiturr than the last ane. The coward. He wiz like a filleted fish on page 40

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
at all!" "Do as A tell ee, ya coward!", an at last she spread oot on page 36

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
t aw!" "Dae as Ah tell ee, ye coward!", an at last she spread oot on page 37

1 matches