A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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fishing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 4.1 19.6 9.9 34.9 0 4.4
Number of occurrences298 13 1 6 0 1
Number of authors19 5 7 1 5 1

Occurrences of fishing in Corpus

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Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ctorian puirfowk in days whan fishing gart the port kythe weel-daei
er been the same here sin the fishing went,” commented Doris.
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
sitting on and the essential fishing gear.
t blethering wis delaying oor fishing. I could see the river tantal
n us didnae bode well for the fishing. Faither set up the rods, fib
3 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
to watch, maybe a wee wager. Fishing rights or a wee bit Fianna go
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
We’d been up the Coal Burn fishing and swimming a’ day, so we
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
wrecked baith the farming and fishing industries and noo ye've vote(2021) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
" "Oow, one just love's to go fishing," he say's "Is their any poss on page 60

1 matches

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
m so I didna freeze fan I wis fishing doon the river Findhorn. I lo
A carried on fishing an hour went by nothing then
2 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ies, packed themsels on rusty fishing boats and heided aff to fitiv
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah’ve gaun fishing, but fit’s the Doric fur fis(2018) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
s wi his ‘friend’, Jim Bett fishing oot a lickin tae the aforemen (2020) twitter link
ot tae charm the fairmers and fishing magnates. (2020) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Show the day, maybe dee some fishing he says. Turn up tae this! ht(2016) search twitter
, pops oot wee ma bandy net & fishing rod the day roond the corner (2016) search twitter
de o' the docks wee o'er auld fishing rods & baith caught twa cod, (2017) search twitter
telt Bert tae go canny on oor fishing trip in Buckie! Think he mist(2020) search twitter

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
hey dinna kane onything aboot fishing in West Lothian, Silvio, the (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Peedie China man wae a fishing rod, green fish tae on page 47

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
wirna hed da chance o a right fishing trip in a braa while.
1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
So da fishing saeson drave by. Da laverick
1 matches

Facebook link (Shetland on Camera 2021) Shetland
Been oot for a peerie fishing trip. Can anybody tell me wha

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
ling me dat dey would bait da fishing line wi dis peerie "fish" caa
hie an was used when dey geed fishing for haddock.

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Da Selkie was waiting for da fishing boat as it came into Toft. ht(2019) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
all do, cannea wait to get a fishing trip away at some point the y(2021) search twitter