A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

abandoned Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 8.5 3 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2217 2 3 0 0 0
Number of authors17 15 1 1

Occurrences of abandoned in Corpus

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Central

Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Simmer Strand, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
returns tae wrack wuid abandoned in the saun. on page 42

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the minds ae the youth ae the abandoned workin classes. Some ae ma ma on page 90

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
jobby that some clat bag had abandoned, that wis noo bobbin up in do on page 98

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Tae lead through this auld abandoned doorway; on page 21

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
We'll niver leave ye abandoned tae the past, on page 31
Like an abandoned stage, haurd, forgotten on page 53

2 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
didnae quite wark oot an wes abandoned efter a few decades. In the 1 on page 11

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Tae lead through this auld abandoned doorway:
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
He wis left, abandoned at the door ay the pineapple
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
an’ only got as far as the abandoned Government guns. A never came
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
r independence they’ve a’ abandoned ship an’ cam ower here? But
1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
but probably getherin dust in abandoned or forgotten glory holes, the
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“China abandoned a Han Chinese population here
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ns explodin. Gin Labour hadna abandoned socialism, they micht no be h
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
These braw stane biggins are abandoned, an will smool slaw back inta
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ce. They felt sae helpless an abandoned by the authorities. It's disg(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Brian_Pacey game abandoned at half time then they kin po (2020) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
I can see past ma land to the abandoned fields at the bottom o Mormon
ands have ay shifted, burying abandoned toons ablow it. If folk arna
2 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
above a rookle o abandoned bikes, on page 5

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
film stills, pens abandoned - twaard an alien on page 26
ed a mosst ancient set-up: an abandoned alien on page 30

2 matches

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