Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

para	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.1	6.7	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	13	13	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	5	5

Occurrences of para 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
the troops yi wid feel a bit para n hang aboot ootside smokin a on page 4
r our enemies, which makes yi para. The stories aboot our elder on page 10
the finger n tryin no tae git para. Commotion over, everybody el on page 28
llin rounds wae it. We aw git para in here cos yi cannae see fuc on page 32
this dope!' Wee Kenzie says, para rippin. on page 34
Also on pages 41, 48
7 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
, Blair, Mundell Dr. Findlay, Para Handy on page 77

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
r wis a day whaur ah wis pure para cause ah found the flat door on page 1

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Whaur I trained as a para and we stole a train on page 136

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
lyin aboot above me an ah’m para that it’s fur us so ah keep
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
fuck. Ah’m startin tae get para that ah’m starin at him, or
1 matches