A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

illegal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 14.4 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences3128 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors17 14 2 1

Occurrences of illegal in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
nticles an field meetins were illegal, an that attendance wis punis on page 33

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
kent fur sure wis that it wis illegal fur the Trunchbull tae skelp on page 117

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
r wish, tae get draggit intae illegal wars an global Yankee adventu on page 137
did jist that, bit it wuid be illegal; gin ye hae peyit yer contrib on page 138
we'll no be draggit intae illegal an immoral wars on page 150

3 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
and this type o behaviour wis illegal, an still is. on page 82
tae deal wi; prostitution; illegal an crookit gamblin; muggins; on page 104

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
. Takkin bets on the street's illegal sae ye nivver pit yer richt n on page 59

1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
kin linguistic discrimination illegal, alang wi ony ither form o di
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e ay the late eighties an the illegal raves we’d aw went tae, pil
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
teachin o regional languages illegal. The Cultural Cooncil pynts o
gional languages in education illegal ayont a certain limit in schu
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ly oot o his face on whitever illegal substance he cuid get his hau
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Rongye is an illegal,” sayed the Tibetan. “We
ty, bit as a first generation illegal, she cudna, e’en though she
it. Beatrice had probably met illegal Tibetan immigrants. Tibetans
3 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
d preachin wis still declared illegal.

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
wis dain aw this when it wis illegal tae preach lik that an illega
tae preach lik that an illegal tae go an hear a sermon oot i

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
he wis dain this when it wis illegal tae preach withoot permission
thoot permission. It wis also illegal fur ordinary folk tae go an h

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
. In the auld deys ye’d hae illegal whisky makers, Jacobites, an
1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
ns he thinks Palmerston is an illegal immigrant.(2016) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
Prostitution isnae illegal, so the cops hae nae reason t(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@RyanMusselburgh m8 a use illegal live streams tae watch - tha (2021) twitter link
tweet 2 - what they did was illegal - end off lol (2020) twitter link
the car share issue which is illegal now and you surely cant let s (2020) twitter link

Doric

Diansangu, Mae naebdy likes a clype, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, poetry
an illegal stick o juicy fruit,
1 matches

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
d, not spaffed up the wall on illegal wars, or trains that run a we(2021) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I think that hid's doonright illegal. If ah'm caught, me job's on on page 16

1 matches

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