Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'darts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

darts	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	9.7	31	15
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
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	75.3	17	4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	15.3	6	4
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	37.4	3	2
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 darts in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
inches fae the grund. A stoat darts doon a ditch. A hunder Golden
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e wis weemin there sklakin - darts bein flung Aye the next "ting on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
CORPORAL SALT'S ONLY DARTS PUB BAND on page 127
CORPORAL SALT'S ONLY DARTS PUB BAND (REPRISE) on page 138

12 matches

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
Hear the repeated whack o darts on page 19

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
Feels gd tae feel gd. How wiz darts?(2011)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
disnae go tae my 2nd hame so darts, nips & peace!(2016)
l i pit yer name doon fer the darts team? ??(2018)
ocal wee pub, game opool or darts wee the locals & a mock chop (2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n front ae the telly. Wumen's darts is oan BBC2. Gid hing tae bec on page 119

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Davie's delicht, there wis a darts competition just startin an t on page 94

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
ndit up juist pleyin dominos, darts an cribbage in the bar. on page 59

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nst wee jocky w - top drawer darts n 2 great characters on the o (2021) twitter link
hey lol sorry wis watchin the darts (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aunnae dae, said Chris, Throw darts at yi. Widnae pit it past yee on page 148

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
iticians, or a monkey throwin darts , or whitever. Maist important
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Dante's haun darts up, and there wis me finkin h on page 24

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
elestic bands tae fyre paper darts it ilk
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
bson10 @lawrence_91 @mousey77 darts at hame the night agains the (2012)
skins6 @mousey77 @hornet_2011 darts away ti the golf b the morn n(2012)