Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'flares'

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Use in varieties of Scots

flares	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	8
ORK - Orkney
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	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	4.9	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	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 flares in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Jerries didna staan a chance. Flares gid up fae the German lines f
1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
raves, heidy wikkends, buggy flares, on page 34

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Bobby (the dug) then my gout flares up(2017)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
har they are they can let the flares aff an' they men rin doon tae on page 24

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ireworks aff - where wis the flares lol (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
"This flares up every few years. The villa on page 54

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
muckle fingrs o fire kent as flares . The photons an pairticles in
an pairticles in thir muckle flares shoots oot an wad smoor the h
we nae fields happin us, the flares aff the Sun wad burn, dose us
3 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ation fae gey an strang solar flares an antrin stranger flauchts f
1 matches