A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

western Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 11.3 10.6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences3022 7 0 1 0 0
Number of authors19 14 4 1

Occurrences of western in Corpus

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Central

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
this in front o a bus load o western towrists . . . on page 36

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the fuck did yae see an auld western film where their shootin up a on page 75

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Saw peace descend alang the Western Front; on page 88
an uncanny influence ower aa Western leeterature. They wir descrie on page 101

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
At the western suburbs o the nearer galaxy b on page 107

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
1960. She got sent intae the Western General wi yin o thae wimmen' on page 136

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Atop rid dooble-decker Western buses,
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ither. It’s lik a Spaghetti Western, wae antsy cooboys stewin awa
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
aen place in the Northern and Western Isles o Scotland forby a whee
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Frae a Western European pynt o view, John Ma
e said that, "Up tae noo, the western European wecht wis maistlins
different set o kinches facin western European threitened languages
3 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
“We will not rise to naked Western aggression,”
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
nsfer ma hauf ay the money by Western Union an MoneyGram. We hud ta
1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
splattered. Six months in the Western wae a fractured skull. It's n
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
rtlauns o Gaelic has been the western Hielans and west-coast island
nt the west-coast islands and western Hielans. It wis aince the lei
s kenably strang anely in the western Hielans and west-coast island
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
managed tae visit him at the Western the tumour hud rotten awey ma
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
fighting on Xmas day, on the western front in World War 1. Maybe h(2020) search twitter

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
s aboot thon shoppie in Great Western Road. @IshbelMcF https://t.co(2016) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
wey black folk ur treatit in western society. Racism is rife, but (2020) search twitter

Doric

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
on Street tae weel beyond the Western Sahara. on page 25

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
her Ah'm weel inte Country an Western music an Ah look a bittie lik on page 56

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
es fa listened tae Country an Western aa day lang an ran a wee stal
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
ae consider the new Aiberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) tae b
1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
????? but yeah, Gaelic is the Western Isles, we hae wi(2021) search twitter