A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sirens Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.1 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences96 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors9 6 3

Occurrences of sirens in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Dizzens o sirens cruin thigether - on page 17

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
We're aff again. A kin hear sirens in the distance. There's fear on page 47

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
The sirens grew deef-lugs loud afore sto on page 37

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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
were screaming, cars honking, sirens wailing. There were black peo
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Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
er chest. The far-aff skirl o sirens lat her ken that some pairt o
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
en, listenin tae aw the polis sirens an reflectin oan the carnage
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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
lue flashin lichts an skirlin sirens war ootside Missus Reed's hoo on page 66

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McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
racket yon motor maks wi the sirens gaen an the blae licht flashi
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Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
the distance a could hear the sirens and then the ambulance and bo
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