A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wheat Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 5.1 3 9.9 0 0 84.1
Number of occurrences3210 2 1 0 0 19
Number of authors13 8 2 1 2

Occurrences of wheat in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
es mair as minds can jalouse, Wheat and baurley, aits and hay, Cl on page 6

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Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
yer wame, a heap o wheat on page 16

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
like fields o bleck wheat on page 18

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 1 - Ye’re Still Here? It’s Ower. Gang Hame., (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
t intae the knap-hie fields o wheat an jaggy nettles. Jyne us - on page 24

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - In Liverpool Cathedral, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The straes o the fat wheat-shaef on page 102
Sae ye can carve alow yer wheat-shaef on page 103

2 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
Wheat and baurley, aits and hey,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ut it. Like a bloody field ay wheat, it is, makin it an unnecessa
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
or grain (mair parteeclar for wheat) afore it haes been grund dou
1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
fs and blue bloods that's the wheat.... Aye Right!(2019) search twitter

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
n he says, 'A hunner bushel 9 wheat'. He says tae him, 'Tak yer a on page 108

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s sleepin, her fair hair like wheat on the bowster, her lang lash
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
It’s whar the fermers grow wheat fur pasta, it’s whar a hund
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
thrashin-flure, getherin hïs wheat ïntae hïs barn an burnin th on page 3
Tha wheat an tha geel on page 9
ha thrashin-flure, an pit tha wheat ïn hïs barn; but he'll burn on page 74
e ye owe?' 'A hunnèr baags o wheat,' sayed he. Sae tha owerseer on page 97
yis aa, for tae rïddle ye as wheat. But A hae prayed for ye, Sim on page 107

9 matches

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
It wus a wheat seed.
It wus a wheat seed.
id hen sed, “Wha'll cut the wheat?”
“W/ha’ll thresh the wheat?” The pig sed, “Naw mae.
“Wha'll grind the wheat?” The pig sed, “Naw mae
10 matches

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