A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

writan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 0 7.5 228.5 0 0 0
Number of occurrences280 5 23 0 0 0
Number of authors6 1 5

Occurrences of writan in Corpus

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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
e wis, "Whiy is a raven lek a writan-desk?" on page 65
E twelve jurors were all writan richt busily on slates. "What on page 105
s meenad e King, who hed been writan in his note-book for a good w on page 114
unate peedy Bill hed left off writan on his slate wi wan finger, a on page 118

5 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
that go seekan a soul-mate bi writan a 'Lonely Hearts' ad. on page 42

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
But Eynar writan his wirds leuks grim. "Bar", on page 149

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Writan yir address oan the package, on page 29

1 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
this volume, aal writan in different styles, poetry a on page 9

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
ckay Brown and Ernest Marwick writan oot lists o things they hid s
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
A’m leavan Orkney. A’m writan this nou on the train sooth f
onths back haem researchan an writan in Orkney language. A startid
ry on Engliesh. An acause yir writan in a language at’s unner th
dulefu hiraeth. An acause yir writan in the language o haem, the l
poondid bi the tradietion yir writan in: in Orcadian, as in ither
17 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ir no yet got a Scots fir the writan o fundeen applicaetions.
1 matches

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