A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

saain Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0 7.5 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences70 5 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of saain in Corpus

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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
owin neeps, liftin tatties an saain seed bi han an then bi machin on page 92

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
le ashet on her knees, an wes saain eidentlie awaa wi the gullie. on page 100

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Puppet Mannie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, poetry
Ere was jyners saain plunks, haimm’rin nails an
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
the seed that hid been saain were peepin throo. They looke
Grun hid been made ready for saain neeps an, the grun hid been c
2 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ets dat mak da aert clair fir saain. on page 67

1 matches

Ulster

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
anither wheen days haggin an saain tae tak tha brench doon. John
1 matches

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