A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

suns Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 3.6 0 19.9 0 20.7 17.7
Number of occurrences157 0 2 0 2 4
Number of authors10 4 2 2 2

Occurrences of suns in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
nd the maisies shone like wee suns amang the roots o the trees. on page 1

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Chrysanths, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
lik smaa suns burnan
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@BarbaraJMar A hink a suns tryin tae get oot!(2020) search twitter
@HippyRockChick Aye! Suns oot!(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n then its youth fitba sat n suns tae keep me going lol (2020) twitter link
- cracked it again - n the suns oot noo - c ees later (2020) twitter link
pourin intae edinburgh - the suns oot fir u every body - huv a (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
set tae Stannart Days, peedie suns ithe girders lightan thir ste on page 61

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
like peedie suns on page 65

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The suns reluctance tae display on page 38

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
but back end suns nae dernit ruit haes slain,
1 matches

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
love flegs. I’m away doon to Suns of Ulster. Jim Wells and all (2020) search twitter

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
Suns oot, suns oot... this isnea a drill @Sg (2021) twitter link