Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

telephone	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.3	6.2	6	0	0	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	17	12	4	0	0	0	1
Number of authors	15	10	4				1

Occurrences of telephone in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
m stoats his knee aff the wee telephone table ootside the bedroom. Ah on page 8

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Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
for the end o the cless but a telephone in the corner o the assembly on page 43

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Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Ah makit a 'telephone' tryst wi ma qwak; 'Doctor Bl on page 80

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
on," Mr. Poe said, as anither telephone rang. "Poe here," he said. "S on page 64

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
The shrill cry o the telephone sends ma heart racin. Ah take on page 14

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
the grund or alang poles. The telephone – Greek for tae hear fae af
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Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
de the green were hooses an a telephone box. Somebody wad gie the hel
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Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
att's steam ingine, gowf, the telephone, Adam's economics an aw that,
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Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
modren warld. The television, telephone, penicillin, logarithms, the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
or telephone:-
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
’ she sais, a fully fledged telephone voice noo implemented.
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
m stoats his knee aff the wee telephone table ootside the bedroom. Ah
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
i look efter hissel. He'd nae telephone, an his dother Maisie, fa wis on page 8

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
pieces o furniture, half o a telephone box an a pre-war Shell Petrol
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Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
housans o fowk were spiert bi telephone anent their use or itherweys
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
st hae tae be the aal farrant telephone!! https://t.co/LCWEY8Ef0B (2020) twitter link

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
s gaun. She hadnae heared the telephone. Hadnae dreamt a single thing on page 53

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