A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'narrae'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
narraeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8169
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 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 narrae 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

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Nou she lauchs that I'v narrae a broun bawbee. on page 39

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
nciation whan it's written wi narrae a thocht for hou Scots is soo
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
tint yowe. On hie grund, an a narrae path, he cums athort a stag w
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ok like blooming lilies. Lang narrae windaes lined the walls and s
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
h in the bourach o Brexit ~ a narrae majority means them that hae on page 32
heir indoctrination intil the narrae-mindit, entitlement-driven wa on page 41
fit, They suffer fae the same narrae mindset as maist o the Englis on page 116

3 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ew tried tae get oot thru the narrae door. Weemin were screamin an on page 93

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
yae continuous waa, an juist narrae windae slits leukin ootwart.
, an noo she wis leukin oot a narrae winnock ower the frostit mona
et an waved his haun towart a narrae winnock that wis skailin spri
her an pu’ed her ontae the narrae pallet aside him, heid tae he
4 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
verra narrae parameters anither time on page 22

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Reid and Narrae an Sair on page 30

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
tae teir them aw intae lang, narrae strips, and tae tie thon stri on page 116

1 matches

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
intra’s weillbein, but this narrae focus fairly taks awa frae th
1 matches

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