A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mountains Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 8 4.8 19.9 23.2 0 30.9
Number of occurrences3115 3 2 4 0 7
Number of authors21 13 2 1 3 2

Occurrences of mountains in Corpus

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Central

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Yince in the mountains on page 65

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Frae mountains whaur white Camlachie Watter on page 55

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
h could see wis the ootline o mountains against a polluted sky. on page 92

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Gilliland, Sam Lallans 83 - Cochise o the Apache Nation, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Ich ettle tae byde in thir mountains. on page 26

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
lavvy brek and petrol in the mountains, and he’d up and tane his b
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Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
irm, cloudless sky and lovely mountains risin above the pink and whit
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an bathes the heather strewn mountains in its light, its reach racin
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McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
'Neath white hielan' mountains,
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Hie'lan' mountains, rugged coires,
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
to the foothills o the Kunlun Mountains there, and if he doesn’t tu
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astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
hite as yon snaw oan the high mountains lookin acroass yon strath tae
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McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
e firs, anen stoaped wher the mountains
tretchin faur awey atween the mountains, an Da goes:
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Cameron, Peter Lallans 74 - Cannle-flame, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
to ken the mountains o the mune,
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@RickHJohnston tweeted
Nane o the Scottish mountains wad hae names if it wisnae fo (2022) twitter link

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
n get views o the city an the mountains roon aboot. on page 11
n ahin ye, ye'll see hills an mountains. Ance ye've been on tap o the on page 16

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
re wis still sna on tap o the mountains an the
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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ll liked to climb the highest mountains in the solar system?" "Yass. on page 67

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Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
the biggest mountains in the system?”
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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
p ipo da rocks drave up graet mountains a waar, da laek a what da fok on page 56

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De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall (GM Hopkins) on page 29

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De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Loch Chon is tippit michty mountains on page 105

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Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“As old as the snowy mountains around us,” replied Pepper.
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Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
in a lay-by, somewhere in the mountains between Italy and France back on page 33

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Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Braid River Valley, frae the Mountains o Mourne, on page 29
Braid River valley, frae the Mountains o Mourne, on page 30
Belfast, nor Antrim, nor the Mountains o Mourne. on page 31
Braid River valley, frae the Mountains o Mourne, on page 32
Braid River Valley, frae the Mountains o Mourne, on page 33
Also on pages 48
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