A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stops Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.7 12.9 16.6 9.9 29.1 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences4425 11 1 5 1 1
Number of authors31 15 8 1 5 1 1

Occurrences of stops in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Y THE FUCKIN KID, A shout. He stops n straightens up n sits his o on page 14

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
stop. Five mair steps. Hedge stops. Wee waw. Up an ower it. Skel on page 1

3 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
10 o clock shi stops fir a break on page 62
Shi nivir stops talkin aboot ah thi things on page 67

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
is dancin wi Leanne. She soon stops tae open a bottle o prosecco. on page 13
'Ah kin-' Granny stops abruptly. Even she cannae jus on page 29
'Your heart monitor's...' She stops mid-sentence when she sees me on page 84

3 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
A stops an turns tae leuk him strecht on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
I stops an turns tae leuk him strecht
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
that starts at six an stops at seven,
1 matches

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
lang; droppin aw oor glottal stops, pittin on the phone voice. W
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
uation, a cauld stream o full stops rinnin senselessly doun the b
1 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
who heiders the baw. Ma heart stops, am gutted. Then ah realise h
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
it disnae huv enough oomph an stops well short ay the mark.
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
o hoors later, the hold music stops.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tons threaps that, as the law stops the language frae existin at
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
if the bus stops sudden.
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
hields wis pullin oot all the stops. Ma ma wis dead busy too, buy
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
rs, her baffies in her hauns, stops whan she sees Mr Mack staunin
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e let the tramp gang. At rest stops, they kept thair distance fae
1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Ootby, (twitter 2022) Central, poetry
Nae bus stops, hooses or howffs oan the wey
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
keup @antanddec .......and it stops snowing!...well in Edinburgh.(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
orts show pulling out all the stops 2 morro by the looks of it! (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
is een. "Mair like she nivver stops spikkin. Iv ye ask me, she's on page 85

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An stops ma team frae wunnerin fit I' on page 131

3 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
While Tertia stops e tale No more than wance a m on page 5

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Fermer makin silage stops takin in the crap.
places an he offen stops for a wee fyle, jist tae hae
2 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
k stappit ticht wie a box. He stops half wye doon and clings onti
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
dinnae mind bein snaed in, it stops ma wifie spending buckie!(2018) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
ot ti Auchnagatt Couple o wee stops Esslemont Arnage etc(2020) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
fine. Mine though. Fin e' fun stops, jist hing fire.(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ou. Hid cheust goes and niwer stops. on page 10

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
he towt, 'ta trap ony-ean dat stops by ta see tae da man.' on page 115

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ffects da soond at's maed. Wi stops da air is completely cut aff on page 25

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Du kens da stops ta poo, ta mak dem finer. on page 84

1 matches

Ritch, Paolo A Remembrance Day, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, poetry
As he stops ta supp some Sweethert Stoot
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@tattooedselkie tweeted
4pm an the aforementioned tae stops my throat fae dryin up(2021) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
But what ye see, it stops ye sair on page 10

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
hae! We hae a wheen mair full stops an conjunctions in Ulster Sco (2014) twitter link