A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20.9 1.5 90.4 0 11.6 20.7 0
Number of occurrences673 60 0 2 2 0
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of dow in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Nor hae havins Ah dow, on page 47

1 matches

McClure, Rob nothing but a set of eyes for stars - The Night, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
hole jing-bang and the row-de-dow of the night! on page 101

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
, here win-, here win-fucking-dow’, a piece of banterous word (2019) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
d himsel tae the grieve, Jock Dow, fa bothied aleen in the chau
t at the tackety buits o Jock Dow, fa wis raxin inno the basket
Fur days noo, Jock Dow the grieve hid yolked three s
ryin wins. The day, tho, Jock Dow hid led the horse back tae th
Jist alang frae Jock Dow, Matthew Bruce, Minnie's da,
60 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
irns fae löf o laand, der médow. on page 28
Low da mödow lies, a löf o land, owregien on page 36

2 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Aye. As Ah said ma uncle Bert Dow (ex Dalhanna Drive, originall(2020) search twitter
@HughesPeg Jemima Dow(2020) search twitter