Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'casts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

casts	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.3	17	13
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	2
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	10.9	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)	88.3	1	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)	54.5	3	1

Occurrences of casts in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Astrid casts back tae a pal fae the colleg on page 71
id's touchan her, whan Astrid casts a airm ower her more-as-Marti on page 91

2 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Casts a knowing eye ower her on page 141

1 matches

Shetland

Sutherland, Stella Half a Twalmont, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
day an night casts aboot
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s a horrible bastard. Silence casts oor the room wae me and Craig on page 133

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
e meanin ae the original, but casts its subtle emphases in ither on page vii

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
t o devotees tae the spell it casts on page 11

1 matches

General Central

Aitchison, Craig nobody remembers the birdman - Fishin the Mairch, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
kevels, steids ilka fit, casts. He flisks on page 1

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
ae I'm telt by yon wumman wha casts on page 36
then casts her oot like a stane. on page 46

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
The nurse casts me a you-better-listen-tae-me on page 84

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
THE GUID SHP BREXIT CASTS AFF Despedida, la revedere, on page 77

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Deep shadow casts on page 40

1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
ent airt 'at kythes sindèrie casts o Ulstèr-Scotch. on page 51

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
casts oot ïll spirits." Knowin tha on page 9
t. But sum o thaim sayed, 'He casts ïll spïrits oot throu tha p on page 89

3 matches