A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sunlight Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.6 3 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences105 2 1 2 0 0
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of sunlight in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
The burds urr singin, there's sunlight fuckin batterin right in thro on page 17

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
a, his face wis lit up by the sunlight streamin intae his bedroom, a on page 44

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
saw the machetes flash in the sunlight. Can ye imagine descendants o
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
busy street below, bathed in sunlight, vibrant an alive wae the Sat
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tin through several blades ay sunlight, illuminatin the dreich lands
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
a, her dark skin glows in the sunlight.
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ey glister in the thin rays o sunlight that shine through the tree b
1 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
Wi sunlight waarm apin his back, an wind on page 79

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
in da summer monts da gleer o sunlight keeps wis trows undergroond.
time, even in da brichtest o sunlight. I hed a splendid Johnsmas Fo
2 matches

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