Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

plums	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	2.1	1.5	0	0	10.3	4.4
Number of occurrences	7	4	1	0	0	1	1
Number of authors	7	4	1			1	1

Occurrences of plums 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

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
he wis ontae plums wi his wee ploy. But Coont Ol on page 99

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
o, invites us o’er tae pick plums in his gairden. Thir deliciou
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n a sniff, then he’s on tae plums.’ Scanlon draws his beak al
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ady’s neck like ripe summer plums. And jist as if she could hea
1 matches

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
@GerryinAberdeen Tattie plums min(2020) search twitter

Southern

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
@MickHill16 Aye she gave his plums a guid squeezing that's fir s (2022) twitter link

Ulster

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
low, hirded rottin o his blak plums, agane the scholars’ glammi
1 matches