Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bitterness	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3	4	0	0	5.8	10.3	0
Number of occurrences	10	8	0	0	1	1	0
Number of authors	8	6			1	1

Occurrences of bitterness 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

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
drappt doun tae a whuspert bitterness as he dwallt deep in thocht o on page 31

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
p party tinged wi darkness an bitterness. The party ay people whose li on page 3

3 matches

White, George Uncle Wull, (Facebook 2024) Central, poetry
Sic a betrayal brocht bitterness
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
ber. But there wis tae be nae bitterness frae Willie this time. Instei
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
over mah body fae th' invadin bitterness. Nothin wis disturbin th' cau
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
ow him doon, grimacing at the bitterness, and fall back tae the other
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
irns, an realised dey wir nae bitterness. on page 32

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
cruppen wi bitterness. Ah canna
1 matches