A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of mass in Corpus

Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
n priest wis ettlin tae stert mass whan his white goun wis drenc on page 14

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
that's cried Bell Craig That mass thrist up frae Hell. on page 10

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
y meal. Grub fit enough fur a mass murderer oan death row. Oan a on page 115
e as if he's goat a weapon ae mass destruction stuffed inside hi on page 124

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Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
rical barbs at materialism an mass opeenion were aither cause or on page 5

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
tae be takkin tent o wir Body Mass Index an ither like stuff, li on page 55

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
it's no even as if yi go tae mass anymair. See you, she said, W on page 66

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
thtakkin sicht o aw), a haill mass o undeemous lang gless pipes on page 73
ildin up ahint him im a solid mass, pushin against his bahookie. on page 85

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Ah cannae even sit through mass wi'oot drawin aw eyes tae me. on page 14
ave seen you coughing away in mass. Nothing to worry about if yo on page 15
y bank insteid o the plate at mass. But ah gat tellt aff fur jis on page 16

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
me wey that thay wad treat - 'mass nouns', thae nouns that daesn on page 27

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
board, at Da's framed funeral mass card. Maw chose a rare pictur on page 43
Ah took Da tae vigil mass when he wis dyin because it w on page 44
'Kate went tae night mass alone oan Sunday night, and S on page 47
d tae get Kate's attention at mass so ah could huv a word wi hur on page 60
know whit's happenin, a broon mass bolts across the flair. on page 82
Also on pages 89
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
(stertin wi the railways) and mass production has smuirit the di on page 9

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Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
k ane last deek at the heavin mass o bodies ootby - or wis it a on page 8

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
plates rummelled, the land mass on page 10

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Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae - on page 97

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
. For the foreseeable future, mass leiteracy in Scotlan will be on page 56

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Ower 99% o the mass o oor hail Sun Gird is intil
e present time some 74% o the mass o the Sun is made fae hydroge
til a Rid Etin that haes less mass and it will stert tae dwyne.
while aneath is a lang, thick mass o hydrogen an helium. Forder
ony objects birlin aroond its mass. The first human tae see this
6 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Wis it no wan muckle wappen o mass construction?
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
offers: “a vast unutilised mass of lapsed observation made by
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
hat teuk pride in thair darg. Mass production wisna for thaim.
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nor a decade eftir, A Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer (20
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Gin ye survive the mass attack,
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Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Ross threaps that Carver’s Mass Dum sacrum mysterium micht be
y (sic as his maist weel-kent Mass Missa Papae Marcelli, thocht
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
A Mass in Scots for Saint Andrae's D
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
or wi exams - sic fowk tane mass transportation.
tae hae gotten tae a critical mass, an cudna nae langer be conta
2 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
A dishevelled mass ae thick ruby hair took focus
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McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
kkin it effectively the ainle mass pairty i Scotland.
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McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ft pairty can win, can haud a mass appeal tae the fowk, an that
s nations. Noo, there’s nae mass anti-austerity pairty that ca
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
wth o the SNP intae a genuine mass popular pairty. There’s a l
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@MizLiot tweeted
aboot folk wanting tae commit mass genocide. But aye, go aff. Ye (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an steer it the hotterin pink mass wi a widden speen, the kitche on page 87

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
tween them noo. It wis jist a mass o foilage. It wisnae
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@72redz1903 tweeted
o the means o production and mass redistribution o wealth. A ne (2020) twitter link
Jason Leitch’s dismissal of mass testing and the approach take (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
here’s no the same critical mass o likeminded neebors sharing
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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
be spleet intae coont nouns, mass nouns an collective nouns. Co on page 48
mair as een). Da exception is mass nouns: you canna hae *twa saa on page 49

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Ulster