Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

knocks	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.4	4.1	3	0	5.8	10.3	8.9
Number of occurrences	14	8	2	0	1	1	2
Number of authors	11	6	2		1	1	1

Occurrences of knocks 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

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
bracin masel fur mair haurd knocks on page 42

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oor. It wis yin ae they polis knocks, ken? the yins that aboot tak on page 16
Park. A proper school ae hard knocks. The buildin auld and run doo on page 188

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
knocks on meh front door on page 77

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
pishes the couch yae nicht or knocks owre on page 120

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ade who uncharacteristically, knocks it back an runs ahead tae ask
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
then a succession ay forceful knocks, like the bloody polis at yer
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
mbarrassing him like that. He knocks uz ontae the bed wi his fist,
1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
eeks, fins an tae e chiel att knocks, e doorie will be opent. on page 15

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
he day we've maistly explored knocks, braes, shanks, heughs, haugh (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
I dunna kaen. Sometin lik dat knocks da wit fae you. You loss your
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The door it knocks, flung open wide on page 7

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ks wull fin, an tae hïm that knocks, tha dure wull apen. If a sin on page 89
tha waddin, sae that whan he knocks yis can apen tha dure tae hï on page 92

2 matches