A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ransom Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 4.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences62 3 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of ransom in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
yer soul in their haunds tae ransom. on page 23

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ik wis spyled, an Dauvit II's ransom o 100,000 merks, causin the s on page 110

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
chunces. Naebody hauds me te ransom," said Jack, grabbin the lett on page 7

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ook widna hae teen a king’s ransom tae gyang doon tae that place
each yin wiz worth a King’s ransom as there wiz only fourteen o
2 matches

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
ti send here for ti ransom me!
1 matches

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