A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whales Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 4.6 7.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences169 5 0 2 0 0
Number of authors10 5 4 1

Occurrences of whales in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
tae ferm an fish an track the whales. Bit nae Ketil. 'Ahm nae ettl on page 14

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
rcle ivvery year tae hunt the whales. Ships fae Dundee like the Ba on page 36
e huntit fer their blubber if whales cuidnae be fund, but the meat on page 37
ships, the men went eftir the whales in these wee boats. There cui on page 40

5 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
draigons, bogles, queens and whales on page 158

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
tae jail, with a whale - and whales can eat you’. The explanator(2020) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@MiriamBrett Mon the whales(2020) search twitter

Doric

Petrie, Kimberley Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ye catch glimpses o whales, on page 25

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
lan o the blae-backit singin whales.' – bit the step-mither's s
rae the laboratories inno the whales' skeletons aneth the sea tae
2 matches

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
sons, o dochters, o birds, o whales, o aa leevin things, o aa the
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
urned a special ile fae sperm whales that burned wi a white licht
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
domestic stuff as I missed da whales. Och weel, it's fine tae ken (2016) search twitter
I hear there's killer whales headin nort fae #SumburghHead(2016) search twitter