Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gallows'

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Use in varieties of Scots

gallows	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.3	17	10
ORK - Orkney	59.6	6	4
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	5.1	2	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	42.5	4	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
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 gallows 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

Miller, Alison Gallows Ha - Bairns Sang, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Haal her up tae Gallows Ha, on page 14

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
for thee. And the hangman on Gallows Ha for me. on page 23

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
will be bayan, surroondan the gallows. on page 27

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Gallows Ha fae first glimmers tae the on page 34

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
will be bayan, surroondan the gallows on page 153

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
ilt göds. My boughs sanna be gallows here. on page 26

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
big job stertin Monday athort Gallows Close frae here. The auld Hin on page 26

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
that they wuid swing fae the gallows. Sae, they turnt an ran back on page 17
ared wi dancin on the end o a gallows rope there wis nae contest, a on page 107
king shall be brocht tae the gallows.' This wis clearly treason an on page 122
"The King shall come tae the gallows tae see his critics hanged".' on page 123

4 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
like a common thief ablow the gallows on the knowe abune the villag on page 61

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
r o the Scots Leid luik unner GALLOWS and that gies a clue tae its
jile thegither, for he was a gallows falla’. Shawin a bit o the
2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ae yont Nyanga dings the fell gallows o the Burghers doon.?????????(2020)