A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

girss Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 0.5 12.1 0 40.7 0 0
Number of occurrences161 8 0 7 0 0
Number of authors7 1 4 3

Occurrences of girss in Corpus

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Central

Johnston, Mary Lallans 73 - Back-Eyn, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
hap e girss like a chaip 70s carpet; on page 70

1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
wp aff dicht'r craig wi douce girss threip tae'r fusper tae'r - d on page 3

2 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
ichts in Edinbro! Sittin on e girss nae far frae us wis three, fo
1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
bizz it made aff intil e lang girss. It gars me grue jist mindin
ps scuffed e grun, fiooers an girss laid, birds an beasts crined
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
rdeenshire sun an keeping the girss doon! https://t.co/VbK7hZeWdL(2016) search twitter
The girss is aye greener on the ither s(2017) search twitter
n_golden an she rips ower the girss! https://t.co/mUhgTv4Wim(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
laangin fir mødoo girss? on page 13

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ion ava. It's aa ledd doon ta girss, eddir fur silage, or ta graz on page 62

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Ati'da girss, a ammirswak ati'da waasp's b on page 11
ati'da girss on page 16
Da girss vimmirs ati'da voar ræin on page 19

4 matches

Nicholson, James Lallans 58 - Do whit du’s telt, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
on sweeties den he sat on da girss an eat da lot. on page 17

1 matches

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