Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scanlon	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	15.9	26.2	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	51	51	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	1	1

Occurrences of scanlon in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
happened. Ah mind staunin wae Scanlon an the boay, Danny Coyle. Sca
an the boay, Danny Coyle. Scanlon’s cousin an aw, McDade. He
aboot? Ah’ll need tae phone Scanlon an put the feelers oot. Try a
full ay fuckin mad heids like Scanlon’s uncle. Just come, he sais
in me ay that day in Fife wae Scanlon; the day the motor fucked, ex
5 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oodin in as the door opens an Scanlon an McShane come in. ‘Some f
he sees him in that nick.’ Scanlon sais. ‘There yer there Dann
Scanlon stares him doon an its hard t
p, suddenly. McShane looks at Scanlon an they smile. ‘It’s a lo
‘Right, gies that you.’ Scanlon sais, bulldozin Pearcey oot h
18 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
is McDade’s cousin, Johnny Scanlon and his mate, Stevie McShane.
mate Stevie, dain’t ye?’ Scanlon sais noddin tae McShane, who
‘Take a look oer there.’ Scanlon sais, noddin tae the dance fl
He’s mad wae the ectos.’ Scanlon sais.
is, puttin an airm roon me an Scanlon.
7 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
bag doon an collapse oan tae Scanlon’s couch. ‘Ah’m no cut o
Scanlon walks back intae the room an
n fur punishment, ya cunt.’ Scanlon sais, sittin doon, pickin up
then he’s on tae plums.’ Scanlon draws his beak alang the tabl
The lines that Scanlon hud so effortlessly hoovered
8 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Efter dinghiein the door in Scanlon’s flat up tae the point we
y were gonae come through it, Scanlon hud relented an let them in.
Scanlon goat a pass. It wis only righ
money, an that wis how me an Scanlon hud been oot an aboot - we w
back oan tae the street near Scanlon’s gaff.
6 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Scanlon’s gettin it aff that Stevie
eboax an McDade phones Johnny Scanlon tae see if he kin sort us oot
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Scanlon came roon an ah gied him the
Scanlon thoat there might’ve been s
Ah gave Scanlon maist ay the gear ah hud left
Scanlon hud settled oan thirty grand
eks, he sold the lot ay it an Scanlon’s awready been roon an coll
5 matches