Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'themselves'

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Use in varieties of Scots

themselves	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	17.5	56	34
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	6.5	2	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	35.6	3	2
DOR - General Northern	35.4	8	4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	20.5	8	7
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.8	3	3
GLA - Glasgow	97.7	18	5
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	10.7	8	7
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of themselves in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ree gardeners instantly threw themselves flat on their on page 75
an e soldiers hed till double themselves up an stand on their hans an on page 79

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
he big fowk could hardly hear themselves chat.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
v an International day aa tae themselves! Fa is gyan tae get the washi(2018)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
the heughs themselves share on page 5
tae fuck themselves aff on page 25

2 matches

@Woodside Wullie tweeted
Yon ScotGov are jist besides themselves wi glee flashin oot dosh tae (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
is these players keep letting themselves and the club doon with poor j (2022) twitter link
ie @pieandbov Facts speak for themselves on the crime count - tae (2021) twitter link
d their fans need tae look at themselves (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
and the pounds'll look after themselves!(2011)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Should count themselves lucky tae hae job in first pl(2016)
barmaids are ootside sunning themselves & ma mooth is as dry as an Ar(2018)
y thought fer anyone else bit themselves #greed #bekindmyarse #hopeuch(2020)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
at Glasgow? They need to sort themselves oot doon there. (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
nymore, watching as the Picts themselves might on page 87

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
And even themselves, upby, on marches and picket- on page 60

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ey baith began arguin amongst themselves. Then a welcomed distraction on page 187

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ely noo that they’ll crease themselves at a neighbour newly returned
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
of those who cannot speak for themselves . We are the law givers, the p
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
boney fingers as thay wrapped themselves aroond mah purple ankle. Th'
boney fingers. Thay enclosed themselves aroond mah ankle, slowly puhl
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
asked them, and they consider themselves weegies. ??. Miserable fecks (2020)

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
ace tae face wi the musicians themselves ...
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
e furst nicht an’ disgraced themselves ! Callum, efter hearin’ the
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
guish over it, without asking themselves , ‘Why did I do that?’, �
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
An sae it wis that thay fund themselves sittin in the shade o the aik
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
. Some cunt's pocketed it fur themselves. on page 19

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
troops wur steamin, launchin themselves oot the broken windaes. A git on page 3
them dive oot the way n pick themselves up fae the deck. There's nae on page 19
e make-up. Most lassies caked themselves in the stuff, their necks gen on page 26
a corner n every'body shites themselves n pauses fur breath. The rest on page 45
chers, who often took it upon themselves tae act like the bouncers ae on page 46
Also on pages 50, 55, 59, 60
10 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
ng Cumbie ya bas) an fortifed themselves in the middle flats (where th
gein themselves sunshine over again as I expl
n slippery. Slugs had dragged themselves ower every leaf an blade o gr
3 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
g, makin a bloody nuisance ay themselves . There wis a bylaw introduced
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ese citizens are entertaining themselves ...
1 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
omewan else who’s convinced themselves that their pet ghost is reall
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay fae them, or threw it away themselves , an ye begin tae afford it th
1 matches

Ayrshire

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
ted to see the wilderness for themselves and go exploring like their g
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
the caa, the pupils cud amuse themselves again. Twa boys, wha were sit on page 43

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
she said men wur fallin over themselves tae ask hur oot. But the way on page 3
din under the stairs and shat themselves when the doorbell rang. on page 81

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
other dimension, to distance themselves from these attributes in simu on page 56

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
nd biding in Scotland wid ca' themselves a Tory. Shairly the greatest (2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
the fankle some folk have got themselves intae - naebody's sayin they(2017)

@weenell3 tweeted
@skiddy1962 They cannae help themselves always put the knife intae a (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
chers. They are terrified for themselves and their ain bairns. They ar(2021)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Tae sing and dance among themselves on page 39

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
limbs, the boys just unhooked themselves on page 41

1 matches