A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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miners Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.2 21.3 3.2 0 0 21.9 0
Number of occurrences4440 2 0 0 2 0
Number of authors18 16 1 1

Occurrences of miners in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
rescue ae they fuckin Chilean miners. on page 31

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Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
The fairmers and the miners, baith, on page 129

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
'Fife miners, Aiberdeen quarrymen, Welders on page 25

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ally be held at some run doon miners club in the ootskirts ae the on page 165

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The miners an jiners an engineers, on page 27
Sonnets inspired by the Miners Strike of 1984-85 on page 64
ha owned pubs earnt money fae miners, on page 67
The miners principles ah thocht wir righ on page 69
They've spent mair keepin miners oan the dole, on page 73
Also on pages 79, 83
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Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
see aa thae miners that dird on page 76

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
on the history o the Scottish miners, I mind tellin ma ain faither on page 7

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Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ies ower at Craigdulleart, an miners tae howk coal frae the pits o on page 17

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Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
hinkin o? These men were coal miners. Fresh air is a hansel fae he on page 136

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Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Like the miners did afore. on page 97

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - Rubies an Siller, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
The hert's bluid o fushers an miners, on page 47

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
he lang poems pent pictures o miners the likes o whit ye'll ne'er on page 133
But this speik o miners, makkin licht o a life o sair on page 134

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
realistic accoont o life for miners in northern France an thair f
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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
fs but in oor care hames, oor miners clubs, oor boolin greens. The
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
as a bairn. The notorious ex-miners - ony yin o thaim cud been I
aret Bill for the sicht o the miners whan they begoud tae troop in
ant o freedom, he thocht. The miners wis weill eneuch fed an shelt
ld People disnae alloo Uighur miners tae gang back hame wi thaim,
Yin o the miners, an Auld Man, flung an erm ro
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Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
on’ oor way. A lot o’ the miners liked a tipple after a hard d
strike like the rest o’ the miners in ‘eighty four, and we had
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
ns o thousands o socialist ex miners are the night spinnin in thei (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
st met west in the fauldhoose miners at pick a chick night - oo j (2020) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
his clip is how at ease these miners are with a man of colour. Wor (2022) twitter link
been used tae define striking miners, Greenham Common, New Age Tra (2020) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
n auld sang . Kames Raw wis a miners' raw in Muirkirk. Onybody ken(2020) search twitter
ang line o Ayrshire/Nithsdale miners. There was a film made of the(2020) search twitter