Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

kelpie	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.9	5.7	13.6	0	11.6	0	0
Number of occurrences	22	11	9	0	2	0	0
Number of authors	6	3	2		1

Occurrences of kelpie in Corpus

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Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
han A thocht A seen the saund kelpie sweemin roond the saund-pit p on page 59
elt fowk noo aboot oor 'saund-kelpie' bogeyman thay cuidnae juist on page 63

9 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
The son o Pan and a watter kelpie. on page 98

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
acters sic as the traditional Kelpie as weel as the new creations
1 matches

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Tales Fae The Doric Side - Kelpie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Kelpie on page 11

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
in the loch aside the fir.. a kelpie, he’d caad it. Efter yon,
he puil aside their haime The Kelpie’s Puil. A fisherman aften
d like a steen, deep inno the Kelpie’s Puil, leavin
mornin. The kelpie maun hae likit the fisherman�
an on doon tae the side o the Kelpie’s Puil.
8 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
juggle (similar to Scotland's kelpie) would wait in streams and lo(2019) search twitter
Casino spots his peerie Kelpie Collie pal comin doon da hill(2019) search twitter