A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

rights Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 11.7 1.6 39.7 5.8 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences3022 1 4 1 1 1
Number of authors20 14 1 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of rights in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
s they slam us in. 'I know ma rights.' on page 1

3 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"These auld bams huv too many rights fur ma likin" he says, before on page 38

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
istributin Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. His judge was Braxfie on page 123

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
sal Declaration of Linguistic Rights, Barcelona, 1996 on page 2

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
o muddle that talk o abstract rights can produce (wi maternity pay on page 97

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
stitution includes a Chapter: Rights for Nature. Rather than treat
re as property under the law, Rights for Nature articles acknowled
al authority to enforce these rights on behalf of ecosystems. The
Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth’11. This ye
4 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e wadnae be tradin awa fishin rights efter the transition period.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ontline sodjers in the animal rights movement. When we got back ha
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
r the Vindication of Scottish Rights wis foondit for tae steer up
r the Vindication of Scottish Rights, the Lunnon magazine Punch se
Human Rights Declaration
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ixture from the serious human rights issues emanating from Qatar
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
h, maybe a wee wager. Fishing rights or a wee bit Fianna gold. But
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
reckon ah'd be well within ma rights tae demand that the cunt pull
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
r under the precept of Divine Rights,, aristorcacy, droit de séig(2020) search twitter

@Sinethugcat tweeted
goodbye tae indy and women's rights to exist...?? https://t.co/oj (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
talkin aboot freedom n human rights here - av alot o good friend (2020) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
e atween ‘mourning’ and the rights of others tae get on wi their (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
nate - and pit the wirld tae rights. on page 64
oot weeman entitled tae equal rights, and men mincan roond in high on page 77

2 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Is I pit the world tae rights. on page 121
Tae ken the rights o whit geed on, on page 127

2 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
int but in my mind dir is nae rights n wrangs wi mixin dialect and(2018) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@AUOBALBA Abolish oor voting rights... (2020) twitter link

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
y corner deliberatin warkers' rights an weemen scrubbin laundry fu on page 1

1 matches

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