A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

berries Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 5.7 16.6 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences2611 11 0 4 0 0
Number of authors17 7 8 2

Occurrences of berries in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nter cause thir widnae be any berries tae pick when Laura Kyle went on page 132

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
eower. Mebbe they were poison berries that jist looked like the gui on page 72
Ye dinnae think thon berries were poisoned, dae ye?" Klaus on page 79

3 matches

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
groups gangin aboot gaitherin berries an huntin boar. The laund in
wthe, for ae guid reason. The berries, nuts an meat wis ower muckle
2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
but the wark o reddin up the berries, the toppin an tailin, wis pe
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
the bridge thair pickin’ ma berries
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
ys wid be framed by brakefast berries fae the Woodland Gairden, lea
s efter his sixth brakefast o berries that Allan seen his claes wer
2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
hen the hill fowk survived on berries oot in the wuids an muirs an (2020) search twitter

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
tor haed belly-rive fae aetin berries an cudna be birst tae tak mai on page 30

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
s flushed as the rowan's reid berries on page 44

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
o the gairden his affa gweed berries, aye an affa gweed craps."
rry bush hid affa bonny juicy berries this year, the bush
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
on they micht rype the wids o berries an game an lift as muckle nee
n it wis a kitchie an clappin berries an steens on tap o docken lea
2 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
t mony ferlies! Trees wi reed berries. We cried em rowans. An blae
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ie faar Jocky grew aa kinds o berries an vegetables an sic like. By
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
eNicol1 that wiz the absolute berries. It's ca'd ending the evening(2011) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
oricPhrases Twa. Een at Barra berries an een at Inverurie. He seems(2019) search twitter
Far better straabs fae Barra Berries ??(2019) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
irp teeth he showed up hedder-berries an slidders o da bark o bushe on page 17

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ubarb jam apö dy scone. Hill berries is fine but dey'll no hadd dy on page 70

1 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
n sent me oot tae gadder hill berries in da darkenin.
a budder wi dee honey an hill berries, wir needin a dose o medicine
2 matches

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