Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

prams	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	3.1	3	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	8	6	2	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	8	6	2

Occurrences of prams in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
yins the best. The bairns in prams or pushchairs. Ma auntie Joyc on page 1

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
nae prams, nae sons nor dochters on page 42

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
wee lassies showin aff their prams an dolls. Joost me, mah uncle on page 174

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
be fur weans tae pit in thir prams but ah knew she'd like it cau on page 154

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
the messages or wheelin auld prams ladit wi washin til the Grant on page 99

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
a day scourin dumps for auld prams just tae get a decent set of (2020) search twitter

Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
er penny in newborn babies’ prams. 50p if she likes the mam. 20
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
nae doobt be full of bikes n prams. Maybe the Fittie Bar!?(2017) search twitter