A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

irvine Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 8.2 3 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2116 2 0 2 1 0
Number of authors15 11 2 1 1

Occurrences of irvine 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
al at the heid o the Watter o Irvine. The Reverend Thomas Douglas on page 34
al, wi a clear sicht doun the Irvine Valley as faur as the distant on page 35
o saxteen aichty-fower, James Irvine o Bonshaw an his troopers cap on page 58

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
lly. Or hear aboot thum in an Irvine Welsh novel. on page 42

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
cal tradition lik Marymass in Irvine. Some lang-rinnin yins hae no on page 56

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
il card an we'd go tae Ayr an Irvine an we'd play crazy golf when on page 163

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Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
Iona Irvine on page 1
Date Twa. Iona Irvine? What kind of a name is that? on page 2

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
t aften in the humour. In the Irvine Valley fowk wes vauntie aboot on page 7

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
itions o urban slang, likes o Irvine Welsh's; an faithfu, feckfu w on page 56

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
eesure frae readin the wark o Irvine Welsh. on page 91

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ney, Rankin, Jeff Torrington, Irvine Welsh, Matthew Fitt an Liz Lo
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
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Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
n Ochiltree and John Galt fae Irvine scrievin The Provost garred u
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Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
oor ither Scots scrievers - Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, Kathleen
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@billykayscot tweeted
s status as the Capital o the Irvine Valley!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
hat fin he died he wanted his Irvine fleein jaicket draped ower hi
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Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
dritch Story, written by Owen Irvine, an S6 pupil at Banff Academy
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
s is of coorse Tom Leonard an Irvine Welsh. Tom Leonard in parteec
itions o urban slang, likes o Irvine Welsh’s; an faithfu, fackfu
2 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
Wee circuit-break in Irvine with the boys https://t.co/6F(2020) search twitter