A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

moons Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 13 0 0 5.8 0 4.8
Number of occurrences2826 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of moons in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
arlier; ah wis like yae, many moons ago the noo, mind yae, but ah on page 19

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
s thon Muckle Rid Plouk an 79 moons o sindry sizes claucht in its
o oor warld. But it haes twa moons til oor ane. Thay are cryed D
, likely aff-fawins o the wee moons an drawn in aboot throu Jubit
ys Galileo cuid mak oot fower moons birlin aboot – noondays ken
llisto. Tae date the nummer o moons gauin aboot Jubiter that we h
23 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
lights illuminating under th' moons ray. Ah keeked up, bygane th'
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Many moons ago ah wis an HGV driver. Wen(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Peerie darlin ?? i mind many moons ago walking aroond a midden a(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Hamill, Ann Yarns 3 - OOR NORN IRON WEATHER, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, prose
ool o’ the evenin, whan the moons hae bin bricht.
1 matches

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