A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

- pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings - fine-grain concord -

Use in varieties of Scots

listens Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 10.6 1.6 19.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2420 1 2 0 0 1
Number of authors12 8 1 2 1

Occurrences of listens 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

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
fur naewan listens tae the speirits on page 24

1 matches

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ear. He either disnae listen, listens an disnae dae anythin tae hel on page 8

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
ma Maw whit Rodrick plays or listens tae, because music's aw jist on page 31

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
She listens tae her mither speakin. on page 3

9 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
and listens wi aa his micht on page 22

1 matches

McCabe, Alan Lallans 73 - Whan the wind blaws, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
han aw the music that naebody listens tae on page 46

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
Education Meenister Listens tae Cross Pairty Group on Sco
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
ith a single register…" She listens for an reflecks shiftin regis
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
s o the period. Merry Courant listens in turn tae forspeakers o the
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
sing aw the time. But naebody listens tae me, even though wur alwis
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ear. He either disnae listen, listens an disnae dae anythin tae hel
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
hasin aw the time. But naebdy listens tae me, even though wur ayewi
1 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
He nivir listens tae em on page 145

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
, the coothie fock, and Eynar listens, ootward, noddan. "No bad, ya on page 75

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ght and if wae miss hid Kenny listens on line through the week. In on page 48

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
st atween tha twa o ye. If he listens tae ye, ye hae wun yer brithe on page 9

1 matches

Web Analytics