A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.5 13.4 3 0 139.5 41.3 0
Number of occurrences5626 2 0 24 4 0
Number of authors13 8 1 2 2

Occurrences of sal in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n awey tae each other. Before Sal starts spoutin maire pish abo on page 174

2 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
can gae oot amang fowks, an I sal shuin get ye oot o the bit." on page 42

16 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 82 - Tecumseh, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
ir ain! Swythe the braid pads sal gae abune the graffs on page 87

1 matches

Foyle, Ghillie Lallans 58 - The Hildebrand Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
ikstaff's steel thon praisent sal A yirn, on page 87

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
That aye the waukrife heid sal chuse, on page 10

2 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
im that he doutis the schiref sal tak souerte of the party that on page 23

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
t ilke schiref of the kinrike sal publy ger crye that na man ry
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
e, I salbe to him, to quham I sal speke, a barbarik; and he tha
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
nd that's wi Joe, Murr, Q and Sal!(2016) search twitter

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
'Lac Léman', a trip up 'Mont Salève' is fair reccomendit. Tae on page 5

2 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
'll mak a covenant wi dee. Du sal hae dis laand fir dee an fir on page 9
I am da Loard - so dan you sal worship me and nae idder ean. on page 16
st, All no be far awa; dy kin sal be my kin; an dy Loard sal be on page 17
Nae ill sal git ta you - on page 45
n, nae mair distress. Nae ill sal come ta peerie tings o bairns on page 63
Also on pages 65, 75, 97, 104, 115, 120, 123, 135, 161
23 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
fae da sooth. Whitna Yöl we sal hae! on page 71

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Whit sal Ah send him for a praisent?
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@hornet_2011 u oot the night sal or is that a stipid question.(2012) search twitter
where u aboot the night young sal?? #problem(2012) search twitter
myrudkin pished by ony chance sal ?(2012) search twitter

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