Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ruby	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	2.6	0	9.9	17.4	0	0
Number of occurrences	9	5	0	1	3	0	0
Number of authors	8	5		1	2

Occurrences of ruby in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
the beast Desire, bewaur his ruby jaw, on page 52

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
a bit ae licht, he turns the ruby gless ower in his haun an str on page 1

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
irst guid frock and coat - a ruby reid dress wi folds in aw the on page 75

1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
A dishevelled mass ae thick ruby hair took focus fae a runnin
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
A price ayont the Ruby’s stock,
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
(nicknamed 'ruby slippers' on page 11

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ir faider wis nae help. Eftir Ruby deeid he just sat at da fire on page 4
laek wildfire, an da nixt day Ruby, ane a da weemin at wis been on page 74

2 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
land #Environmental award fae Ruby. Well done! :-) https://t.co/(2015) search twitter