A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pearls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 3.7 9.6 9.9 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences167 6 1 0 0 2
Number of authors9 3 4 1 1

Occurrences of pearls in Corpus

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Central

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
rflee wings, and fower hunner pearls jist tae mak shair he's weel- on page 59
ety quirks? And thae braw wee pearls, shinin like the stars in mun on page 63
see a single threid. The only pearls he could feel were the pearls on page 64

4 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
als an decoratit wi strings o pearls, span oot, an oor skirts birl
ont Olympus. The bonnie white pearls lowsed fae ma hair an skited
2 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Better Thigether, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
(sunlicht seithin the pearls)
1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
y tae e tykes. Dinna cass yer pearls tae e piggies, for fear they on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
h smile an touch the string o pearls it ma neck - Ah eesed te lik on page 44

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
in o the history ahin the twa pearls o watter trimmlin at the lip
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
stouned an twa roon glimmrin pearls o watter wummled at the neuk
ers the gowdfish watched, the pearls o watter reamed ower an dreep
2 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
McKenna his bin passen on the pearls he got fae Consi(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
turnan salt poodered pearls on page 81

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
oags; an dïnnae scattèr yer pearls afore pïgs. If ye dae, the' on page 7
ler on tha luk-oot fer fancie pearls. Whaniver he fun yin that wus on page 9

2 matches

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