Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gravestanes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

gravestanes	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	70.3	2	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern	162.8	1	1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	53.1	5	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	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 gravestanes in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Alangside the gravestanes. It's a puir bit. on page 111

2 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
Back til whar the gravestanes skew
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Magic Roosters and Gravestanes on page 70

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
an headit aff throu the auld gravestanes no even hearin Wullie shout e on page 65
kittert throu atween the auld gravestanes then - aw o a sudden - the on page 66
kittert throu atween the auld gravestanes, then in the blink o an ee th on page 69
the habit o walkin amang the gravestanes as he composed his sermon fer on page 109

5 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
So aff we gang, by auld stane gravestanes , in the daurk withoot a torch

@ThonJacobite tweeted
d church records and info fae gravestanes and fae auld family members w (2021) twitter link