A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

watery Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 2.5 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences85 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of watery 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
arse ae yours,' His wife's aw watery-eyed like that, 'Please leave on page 2

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
urface o ice that micht hae a watery ocean ablow. As Europa gaes b
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Watery een an rinnin nose -
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
bblie baird an a glent in his watery blue een.
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
ill smiled at me but it wis a watery far-away smile and when she k
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Let a watery grave be ma fate on page 15

1 matches

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ething about the sound of a ‘Watery Wullie’ that’s nae altogeth(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
a horse it would dive into da watery depths to drown them @Folklor(2019) search twitter