A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mentions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.5 8.5 3.2 0 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences2016 2 0 0 0 2
Number of authors16 12 2 2

Occurrences of mentions 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

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
e spray-painted it aw wae our mentions, the Young Team symbol - a Y on page 4
know the cunt n ma maw barely mentions him. He's just a vengeful gho on page 37

2 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
ever. However, there hae been mentions o Aesop in Greek history, whi on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d stealin oor joabs. Naeboady mentions R2D2 is the yin waitin in the on page 22

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
use she made her clean aw the mentions aff the Lassies' Toilet doors on page 34
ans roon oor bit that sprayed mentions aw ower his walls or called h on page 99
ad jist cleaned aw the latest mentions aff the lassies' toilet doors on page 101
he Robbie Park next tae other mentions that said, REMO, an, KIRKY YO on page 131

4 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
naebody mentions the Scots wha focht aside the on page 58

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
vilisation, giein the auldest mentions o the Breetish isles, the vai on page 110

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
rd an got replaced wi "dinnae mentions" or "dinnaes" for short. Rats
1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
Leid Resource Centre forby an mentions
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
This ane mentions hoo he wis dug up then buried

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ae tae listen tae a song that mentions CRUSHIN us ivery night! Great (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
here wha hus a fitba avi, or mentions it in thur bio. Thur fu' o th(2020) search twitter

@LowEndJardo tweeted
olitics ae fuckin nukes in ma mentions, a wanty go hame man https:// (2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
fed up wi aa the Black Feyday mentions?(2018) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
awrightDaniel Aye, likely. It mentions brankie at the stairt an aw, (2021) twitter link

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
But naebody iver mentions on page 5

1 matches

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
llykayscot @DrMDempster It is mentions in the song “The Big Stane”(2020) search twitter

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