A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fallen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 8.7 9 19.9 5.8 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences2917 6 2 1 2 1
Number of authors20 11 3 2 1 2 1

Occurrences of fallen in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
up. Everybody sits doon on a fallen tree n seems tae slow doon. W on page 48

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Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
spume and foam as fallen blossom on page 87

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d deaths oan the jockey ae ma fallen hoarse, when ah hear this voi on page 20
ties oan the joackey ae their fallen hoarse. Or, oan some bottle m on page 27
ae find the location ae their fallen joackey's hoose oan google ma on page 32
Ma explanation seems tae huv fallen oan deaf ears cos he's jist t on page 158

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
said. "Ah'm a romantic. Ah've fallen in luve wi it. Please let me on page 196

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Dante sits oan a fallen tree and starts readin. A ner on page 42

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ever spell trouble, and ah'd fallen asleep before Isla got hame, on page 14

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Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Tropfen fallen langsam in die Tiefen. on page 10

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Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Land o Fallen Empires, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Land o Fallen Empires on page 76

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Here the first snow had fallen on page 91

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Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
his banes. Yin o his een his fallen oot and bluid wis aw over his
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McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
fallen boulders. We dreeped doon a b
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McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
arrival. A new-boarn wean, a fallen angel, an a comatose nun. Hau
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@annieones tweeted
per English". You my son have fallen for their propaganda! You are (2022) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"A winder how many miles A've fallen by iss time?" she sade oot lo on page 9
t idea wis at she hed somehow fallen intill e sea, "an in at case on page 19
wi e burds an animals at hed fallen intill id: air were a Duck an on page 22
id wis joost possible id hed fallen intill a cucumber frame, or s on page 34

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Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
permission o’t tae tak some fallen branches fae it. Then she cra
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
t Yow, Female sheep which has fallen over onto her back and canna (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
oving females' and they'd aal fallen foul o some 'bitch'. on page 42

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Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The craft o buildan fallen tae the eldest, as roond and on page 95

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
y clouds are those which have fallen doon oot o the sky. https://t(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
fallen efter him, is hei ran doon th
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The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
e Day, bit of course it's the fallen in a' conflict that oo rememb
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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
mmer's gone, an all the roses fallen." Maisie held oot a slice o b on page 11

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