A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sporran Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 2.7 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences75 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of sporran in Corpus

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Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Like tae wear the kilt and sporran, on page 16

1 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
ye’r in Embra ye can see a sporran made fae the leathered flesh
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ts an there a Hielan coo wi a sporran for a heid, a tartan rug for
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
the sense o ‘a stream’), sporran, messages (as in ‘groceries
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
och, ceilidh, cairn, crag and sporran. Aw thir wirds come fae Gaeli
1 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
nie on i'street wi' a spotted sporran on page 159

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e, Teenie hid traivelled in a sporran. Yon wis derk an hairy an a t
1 matches

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