A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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rifles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.7 3 10.4 0 0 0 29
Number of occurrences196 7 0 0 0 6
Number of authors9 5 2 2

Occurrences of rifles in Corpus

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Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ddart wis in the Dreerieshire Rifles durin the war an thinks he's on page 26

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
haud crates o rifles on page 70

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - In Liverpool Cathedral, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
For while the rifles crackl't on page 103

1 matches

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
n a beasts grabbed yin of the rifles fae Bear and cam richt up clo
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
rt a man wha wis gaitherin up rifles.
e ithers in the back tae pynt rifles
2 matches

Doric

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
puckle dummy Lee Enfield 303 rifles made for bairns tae use. Grab
e tin hats an the Lee Enfield rifles. I nivver tellt onybody aboot
oom that held the tin hats an rifles!! I stoppit mid closin my wat
m though wiz the tin hats nor rifles ivver made an appearance only
the wee door wiz open an the rifles an tin hats ready an wytin fo
5 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a time nor room tae use their rifles so it wiz haan tae haan, rifl
cked up their pre-war hunting rifles and the ither troops wint bac
2 matches

Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
ter Division, the Royal Irish Rifles, an in parteecular for me, th
me, the 14th Battalion o the Rifles - the Young Citizen Voluntee
h Battalion o the Royal Irish Rifles. The 19th wis a reserve batta
h Battalion o the Royal Irish Rifles.
diary o the 14th Royal Irish Rifles
5 matches

Lyttle, A. G. Yarns 3 - Lastin Memorial, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, prose
Doon Rifles were settin up.
1 matches

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