A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

prison Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 9 17.6 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences3017 11 0 1 0 1
Number of authors23 14 7 1 1

Occurrences of prison in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
dwallt deep in thocht on his prison ycars. 'For fower lang year a on page 31

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
plained to me the benefits ae prison. "Ah'm tellin yae, Chrissy" h on page 20
a starklin resemblence tae a prison yaird. It didnae take long ta on page 195

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the constables an pit in the prison in the Toun Hoose, wi nae bai on page 126

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
In hou yer prison's rin, on page 45

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
yhin tae distract me fae that prison o a buildin. on page 37

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Prison-cauld whaur bienless eild on page 80

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
or in prison they'll close-pent ye yet. on page 27

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
Onywy. A get roon the prison-style fence, and am immediate
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Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
e an a sink. It looked like a prison cell.
ew ah the boxes, made her wee prison cell look mare like hame. Ma
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
boattle, trapped in its gless prison. He offers it oot tae us. ‘
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ma hoose feels like a prison, but it’s safe. There’s n
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
tually a primary school but a prison fur the criminally insane.
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Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
wi out wards an musie wi out (prison) bars
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Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ol tae the heid or a fine, or prison, mibbe torture, mibbe tanspor

@raiphsays tweeted
W! noo am oan episode 3 of at prison series! Yas!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
henchman/caretaker, a retired prison oafficer, is sittin lookin oo on page 40

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Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
rocht aa the wye tae Monymusk prison camp in North East Scotland. on page 27
piynted oot the spot far his prison block had been an he found a on page 29

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
like the prison bars on page 26

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"She's in prison," e Queen sade till e executi on page 84

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Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
re's some word that Peterheid Prison micht be closin'. Fit d'ye th
Peterheid Prison? Too true it's criminal. It's
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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t noo it fellt tae her like a prison. She couldna enjoy her gairde
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ven days in the new Peterheid Prison. https://t.co/dDWuIlOdPy(2017) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Ah'm been in prison fur da past five years, ah'm on page 58

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Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
As hae sits thir in haes prison, wae haes keeper on haes rich on page 18

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