A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

herds Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 3.2 3.2 0 11.6 98.4 0
Number of occurrences196 2 0 2 9 0
Number of authors10 5 1 2 2

Occurrences of herds in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
erent kind come plunderin oor herds, on page 40
bruit, as happens wi bulls in herds aftimes. on page 121

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
swallows and Tod Lapraik and herds as weel, on page 123

1 matches

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
doun the glen, garrin aa the herds o beasts flee flichtit afore
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e arrive and wi the rains the herds o wildebeest and zebra seekin
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
er. Hae ye no seen his ‘Twa Herds’ - aboot the tulzie atween
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hrick fullt frae their growin herds o kye, an selt it aa roon the
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
fur da kye, it's eddir graet herds a dairy or beef kye, or nane on page 62

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Græt waandrin herds, hærsts, a prood wyf. on page 21

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
herds aff the Burns Laird boat swir on page 143

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ly is the Back Waitter) is ae herds biggin cad Howpasley Combe, w
flitted tae Mulsintoun ootbye herds hoose, Whaupshaw, frae the Ho
s ae callant, at the praisent herds hoose it the
herds resident i baith hirsels: an
r, whae leukit weel efter his herds. Tae the best o ma
8 matches

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