Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fireworks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

fireworks	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.1	13	8
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
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	8.9	2	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	1
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	16.3	3	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	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 fireworks 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I stood and watched the fireworks explodan ower the sea. on page 30

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
As dey hockit fireworks oot o da back o a van, I took
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
auchter and dauncin on boord. Fireworks glimmered in the sky as the e on page 114
re wis music and lauchin, and fireworks lichtit up the derk sky, and on page 125

2 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
oblem radio clyde? as for the fireworks - at least theyll provide pl (2021) twitter link
vvy ultras ootside lettin the fireworks aff - where wis the flares l (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ds and her words flisted like fireworks at fu speed. It wis Miss Hone on page 171

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Friday anaw, jackpot. There's fireworks burstin aw over the place. Th on page 12
ed chute. They're single shot fireworks but the screech n the bang af on page 13
n buzzin aw night, cos ae the fireworks, the swally n the Friday Feel on page 18

3 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Ye set fireworks aff at nicht, on page 17

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
enin tae Matthew Fitt's poem 'Fireworks aff the castle' - there a @B (2021) twitter link
s, listen tae Matthew Fitt's 'Fireworks aff the Castle' here: https:/ (2020) twitter link