Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fowl'

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Use in varieties of Scots

fowl	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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	10.2	4	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	56.2	4	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fowl 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.

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
their soup, fish, flesh, and fowl like men and Christians. But
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
populated by various domestic fowl – chickens, Muscovy ducks,
s, geese and even some guinea fowl . There were several ramshackl
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ir amongst the locals, guinea fowl and sand grouse fluttered noi
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Whether he was eftir fish or fowl or somethin a bittie bigger i on page 84

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
it. Sae it's jist as weel the fowl that pit these things thegith on page 25

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
owmart, fasert (hermaphrodite fowl ), fostirit in filth and fen�
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
fowk piled fish, fowl, fruit on page 5

1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Wee Broon Hen, (no publisher recorded 2022) Ulster, poetry
It was a beautiful fowl all broon n gold and a wee ye
The colours on that wee fowl were amazin I was really take
Tae introduce the other fowl tae, oor very own wee broon h
We had plenty o fowl around thon time but when i t
4 matches