A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

straa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 0 6.4 19.9 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences80 4 2 0 0 2
Number of authors5 2 1 2

Occurrences of straa in Corpus

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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
n thunner. Syne, lik a reekin straa, he dwined doon inti the caal on page 46

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
an wizzent lookin. There wis straa ahin the lugs - the lugs mus on page 13

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
t. They blew up puddocks wi a straa till they burst. They rypit t
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
An her hair it luiked like straa
1 matches

Orkney

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
Peter's pullan straa across thi back on page 18

2 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Hye, or mebbe straa, or strae, wus it? on page 14

1 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
d o coarn an a guid wee bed o straa. on page 4

1 matches

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