A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gentry Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 6.2 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1512 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of gentry in Corpus

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Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Hobnobbin wi gentry, on page 17

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
tae be seen as members o the gentry sae deckit theirsels oot as i on page 25
ae wunner that especially the gentry roun aboot on page 83
ly built tower with a crowd o gentry on ae side and a great number on page 87
an twa or three ithers o the gentry cam forrit tae see whit wis h on page 89

4 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
nicht for the gentry; wan franc a day and twa fran
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
wrate Flouers o the Forest an gentry gaun awa back tae the Dukes o
ony screivers , nor dukes nor gentry either." Let's howp things ha
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
e the same rank as the landed gentry? Lord Elgin, the Projeck's pa
1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Boswell’s Coort, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
frae the huils o prood gentry
alive or deid, nor dukes nor gentry naither.
2 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
lever enoch tae huv the local gentry pay his education as weel as

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
tabacca trade. He wisna real gentry, o course, though he'd a like on page 106

3 matches

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