A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

irth Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.3 3.7 0 0 0 0 137.1
Number of occurrences387 0 0 0 0 31
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of irth 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

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
tae hear it at the enns o the irth on page 10

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
, never wance thinkin how oan irth she wis meant tae git back oo on page 8
gittin tae the centre ae the irth, near enough. Lit me hink: th on page 9
day an night! See, right, the irth takes twenty-fower oors tae t on page 59

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Tae onybody on this irth, on page 90

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
it tae the flair. “Whit oan irth’s the maitter....?”
1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Aa fowk on irth wull o tha Loard Hae mine, fr on page 66
Tha irth untae tha Loard belangs, An a on page 69

3 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
le, fer the' wull inherit tha irth. on page 4
Yous ir tha saut o tha irth. But ïf tha saut loasses ït on page 5
t ïs God's throne; or bi tha irth, fer ït ïs hïs fit-creepie on page 6
d up fer yersels treysures on irth, whar moths an roost desthroy on page 7
pooer tae forgie sins here on irth..." - he then saed tae tha p on page 9
Also on pages 72, 78, 86, 88, 93, 98, 100, 106
28 matches

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