A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sombre Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences54 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of sombre in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the summer gloamin turnt tae sombre nicht ower the tap o Cairn Ta on page 54

1 matches

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Then finds a sombre tune on page 61

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
ashed fur comfort, mirthless, sombre, on page 112

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
the darklin shadows brocht a sombre mood.
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An them wha mairched, in sombre ranks, on page 35

1 matches

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