A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

presses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 7.4 3.2 9.9 17.4 21.9 0
Number of occurrences2214 2 1 3 2 0
Number of authors17 10 2 1 2 2

Occurrences of presses in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
the back door, opens it. 'Tom presses flat against the waw like his on page 1

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Presses intae wet saund. on page 200

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
While the ship relentlessly presses oan, on page 20

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
the muckle room, packed intae presses and stappit on shelves that s on page 52

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
A wecht presses on folk ayont blamin and chai on page 23

1 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
The High Heid Yin's presses owerflowed wi that mony claes on page 56
rin in tae the room whaur the presses and kists for the High Heid Y on page 63

2 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
uce an the sot away in aw the presses, took the table cover, shook on page 46

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Coffins stood round like open presses,
Coffins stude roond like open presses,
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
e matches on the coonter an A presses the coin intil her luif. It c
1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
As the ship relentlessly presses oan,
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
s deid at the furniture shop, presses her haund-cupped coupon tae t
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
up, ma gran's cupboards were presses but ma ain were jist cupboard(2017) search twitter

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
n an rakin in aa the rooms an presses. on page 80

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
f for piles In een © yon wee presses on page 15

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
n Facebook as i aa Scotland's presses togither), but hid's no consi
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
an noticed at dev wir filt wi presses an bookshelf; here an dere sh on page 9

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
wi steyn skelfs lik doorless presses. on page 44

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
at the boddom o kists an presses.
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
n aff ma feet here reddin oot presses! Hope ye'd a grand day, 60 is(2020) search twitter

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