Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

highway	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	3.1	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	7	6	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	5	1

Occurrences of highway in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
on, there wis straichtforrit highway robbery by armit an maskit me on page 104

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
thaim straicht aff doon the E-highway, on page 36

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
where we ride the rape highway on page 12
jinks owre the highway, swippert, smairt, on page 44

2 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
Belgrade pu’s oot ontae the highway, ma final thoct efter an ithe
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Beater @henningwehn share the highway - is it no the pavements lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
By followin' the original Highway Code!
1 matches