Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bookshelf'

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Use in varieties of Scots

bookshelf	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bookshelf 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.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
at dev wir filt wi presses an bookshelf; here an dere shö saa maps a on page 9

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Sometimes I go to my bookshelf, pick a book at random (this (2020)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
thing he wint inaboot tae his bookshelf o medical beuks an selected y
1 matches

General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
set his een oan. A vast broon bookshelf crouched in the distance, wi on page 76

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
k his heid oot fae behind the bookshelf. Aha, he said, Yi didnae see on page 106
. Harpreet wis staunin at the bookshelf behind us kiddin on she wis r on page 107

2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
A bonnie bookshelf on the waw. on page 159

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
@LiamMcIlvanney A braw bookshelf! Bide forever young. https://(2020)