A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

glisks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.6 1.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences107 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of glisks in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
dnae unnerstaund. It wis like glisks o lightnin. Wee waffs o light on page 158

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
hed alang, they caucht sudden glisks o unco and wunnerfu things ga on page 139

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
tae jalouse whit thochts and glisks and wuidrims the harns it ain on page 18

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
them baith he is worshipt and glisks wi glawrie. on page 97

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
are aa glisks o Eternity on page 80

1 matches

Lawrenson, Dorothy Ranch Road 12, San Marcos, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Fife, poetry
glisks o starns: ae, twa, a thoosan
1 matches

Robertson, James Dr Wha, (Scottish Poetry Library 2018) Central, poetry
micht be mere glisks o life-forms yet tae be.
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
reeks oot tae You a stray dug glisks at me tomataes fit tae birst on page 3

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
whips, the reid rivan an gowd glisks, the skyran dancers ower the on page 53

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
nivver buskit in sic gowlden glisks. on page 33

1 matches

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