A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

barras Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 4.5 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences139 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 4 4

Occurrences of barras in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
They sell oor records up the barras on page 118

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
e stair tae the dancin at the Barras on page 43
lt by pirates vendin doon the Barras on page 83

2 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
I seen ye by the way, by the barras way, tharra way! Whit?!
1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
xt tae a sweet stall doon the barras! (2022) twitter link
ner Ah wull hen, off doon the Barras before ya shandy? Deciding wh (2022) twitter link
bin, did ye get lost doon the barras ya dunderheid? ?? (2022) twitter link
y tweets tae fir wan doon the barras hen? ?? (2022) twitter link
odinks79 @star_welsh Doon the Barras the mora hen? (2022) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Y.EC. Like chape johns at the barras they Made sellin stuff look l on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
cairts, posts an palin wire, barras, bikes, saaws... He smiled te on page 93

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
n up time, fowk wi shovels an barras tryin tae clean up the rubbis
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
erafc Ony o the twa. Best fae Barras.(2019) search twitter

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