Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nories	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	8.1	8.7	1.5	0	40.7	10.3	0
Number of occurrences	26	17	1	0	7	1	0
Number of authors	12	8	1		2	1

Occurrences of nories 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

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
racism wi their repetition o nories like we're aw subsidy-junkies on page 47
e depend on onie middle-class nories o acceptabilty, respectabilty on page 75

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
nna tyne wirds on sic mistaen nories, but ettle tae gie an evendoo on page 56

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
an St Kilda as his ingait tae nories o ancient customs an sattleme on page 110

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
y that the heidmaist ideas an nories at haes stellt the magazine i on page 6

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tor want ti threip on his ain nories ti sic a lenth at members o t on page 4

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ns theirsels, tho he had some nories o his ain aboot the ideal wey on page 56

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Aw the auld Romantic nories that humans held in lang fern
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ption o the uncle’s sindrie nories as he lawbors unner his delus
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e thare wis that few o thaim. Nories anent langage gien expression
1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
oot for ti read1. It biggs on nories laid doun bi Thomas Berry2, w
ice. It is an eik til existin nories aboot human juistice ootwards
iks as gin it’s pittin auld nories intil new claithes. We hae na
s, plants an launscapes. Thir nories isna new, but what is new is
th mainstreamin’? Daft-like nories? Mebbies ‘ay’ an mebbies
5 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
cultur, an in parteiklar, the nories o MacDiarmid’s ‘Scottish
1 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
it seems tae full my heid wi nories - but I dinna ken azacly fit on page 23

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
inna da gairden, De'r tammie nories at Sumburgh on page 87

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ave birds (as are Guillys and Nories). Beautiful, powerful, agile.(2020) search twitter
the other night and saw more Nories than I've seen there in years(2020) search twitter
lower fae noo on! Still a few nories da day. Soon be gone :((2013) search twitter
Cloods o Tammy Nories at Da Head! A sheeny swirl o (2013) search twitter
end, alangside da Dunters and Nories. #4Wild #Shetland https://t.c(2019) search twitter

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
icht less taen up wi nebulous nories nor English. Scots is certain on page 34

1 matches