Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

barge	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.6	6.5	0	0	0	10.3	4.4
Number of occurrences	15	13	0	0	0	1	1
Number of authors	7	5				1	1

Occurrences of barge 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.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
r lads, wur arrested sailin a barge doon the canal.' on page 1

9 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
er fae thus shitty weather ah barge past thum which results in a on page 176

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
t tae go near them way a 10ft barge pole, they wurr a bunch eh st
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
e English lines, tae hack an' barge,
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
an the like. Efter the royal barge haed passed oot o sicht, they
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
rse! Winnae touch him with ma barge pole...(2020) search twitter

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
plaised, wi deil tha wife tae barge, on page 3

1 matches