A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

samson Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 4 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences118 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of samson in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
"C'mon, Samson. There's wark tae be dune," h on page 17

5 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ther than in the line fae Tam Samson's ‘Elegy’: ‘And eels, w
1 matches

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
us a South African tale aboot Samson, no’ quite the wan in the B
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
tell me he’s gey sib wi Tam Samson, Gavin Trimmle, the Parker br
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
n his fecht. This is mair lik Samson an Delilah, an Ah doot ye're on page 55

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ttle it wi a puzzle. Jist lik Samson settled the Philistines wi a on page 89

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Just look at Samson and compare on page 9

1 matches

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