A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stromness Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 0.5 1.6 69.6 0 0 0
Number of occurrences91 1 7 0 0 0
Number of authors7 1 1 5

Occurrences of stromness in Corpus

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Central

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
Days later ah reached Stromness whaur folk taen peety on me w

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
£38 ??)... An fondly min on Stromness shoppin wik wi the pipe ban, (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ae haed a show tae present in Stromness Toon Hall for the St Magnus I on page 34

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
In Stromness there's a custom that, fur wa on page 29
Halt a while in Stromness wi hids quaint owld cobbled s on page 37

3 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Stromness Academy, Davie Ward's bus on page 42

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
fae as far apart as Brechin, Stromness and Brae hiv been phonan in t
1 matches

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
mither and faither tuk me tae Stromness in the car. We walkid aboot s
1 matches

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