Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

traps	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.9	2.1	7.5	0	23.2	41.3	8.9
Number of occurrences	19	4	5	0	4	4	2
Number of authors	15	3	4		4	2	2

Occurrences of traps 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
airts wae an M, likesay moose-traps, or the moon, or memory, or m on page 74

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Tae spin for heavy flee-traps? Aye he caas on page 45

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Ti spin for heavy flee-traps? Aye he caas on page 60

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
areas huv replaced the death traps they tried tae pass oaff as a
1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
at begins wi an M, leck moose-traps, an e moon, an memory, an muc on page 72

1 matches

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
n awa tae Dad, his wee mowdie traps hingin owre the haunlebars o
catchin them in yon funny wee traps, he keepit a baggie o strychn
2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
al Every time they open their traps they get it rang. Surely by n (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith Toonser traps for teuchters that's fit they(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
at starts wi an M, laek moose-traps, an da mön, an memory, an mo on page 76

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ur wuppin da skroos, an moose traps, everything you cood mention. on page 15

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
tank traps, watch-too'ers, bunkers; da o on page 27

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Hiprah for non-lethal moose traps! I feel lik I'm starrin in my(2016) search twitter

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
sterts wi an M, sic as moose-traps, an th muin, an mindin hings, on page 74

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ir ae expert it settin mowdie traps.” Geordie askit the
die is hei checkit his mowdie traps.
intil yin o his traps an kum the neist morning; wha
3 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
tchin. Leonard laid a wheen o traps. I hope ye dinnae mine. Danie on page 56

1 matches

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
at stairts wi an M, lik moose-traps, an the moon, an memory, an m on page 75

1 matches